Columbus Jewish Film Festival - Moses Ezekiel: Portrait of a Lost Artist

Directed by Steven Pressman, Documentary, 2024, USA, 56 min.

In recent years, hundreds of Confederate monuments and memorials have been taken down throughout the United States, largely in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and related protests against the Civil War’s bitter legacy of slavery and racism. Who knew that many of the nation’s most prominent Confederate monuments were created by an internationally famous Jewish sculptor who had fought for the Confederacy as a young soldier? His Confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetery was removed in 2023. From the award-winning director of 50 Children and The Levys of Monticello, Steven Pressman’s timely and provocative new documentary film tells the unknown story of artist Moses Ezekiel while also focusing on the current fate of Civil War monuments devoted to the dangerous “Lost Cause” myth of the Confederacy.

Q&A to follow with Director Steven Pressman

Tickets: $12

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