This week I got to discuss the first 2 episodes of The Golden Bachelor on the Fake the Nation podcast, hosted by the incredible Negin Farsad! This new, seniors-oriented season of the franchise has much to discuss, and we got into all of it - hearing aids, elderly making out, late in life fitness, and whether or not women who’ve survived menopause should be asked to sleep in bunk beds (the answer is no).
Listen Here! Or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hello London and Manchester! I’m crazy excited to announce Anatevka will have its UK premiere in November, at the 2023 UK Jewish Film Festival, where it will show 4 times in 2 cities!! I can’t wait.
Getting to share this piece, which is so personal for me, around the world, is a joy.
Many thanks to all the folks who came out for the Richmond, VA screening of my latest short film, Anatevka, last month!
Richmond is for lovers, and for screening Anatevka! Please join me on September 29th, at 10pm, for a showing of my latest short film. You can buy tickets here.
Canvas, one of very few funders focused on Arts & Culture in Jewish life, has its own online magazine, the Canvas Compendium. They regularly invite artists they admire to write about the Jewish artists they love, and for their most recent issue they chose me!
It was an honor and joy to kvell (praise / talk up) and write about the creators who inspire my practice. You can read it here.
I had an *incredible* experience premiering my newest, wearable Passover creation, titled Taylor Bonnet, at this year’s Easter Parade!!
Click here to learn more about this piece, and my experience promenading with it on 5th Avenue.
Material / Inheritance, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Maryland featuring work from New Jewish Culture Fellows, opened this weekend. I could not feel prouder or luckier to have my work included.
What a thrill to see the show highlighted in the Washington Post!!
Obsessed with the dysfunctional, privileged, insanely dramatic dealings of the Roy clan?? SAME. Please join the truly wonderful Negin Farsad and me every Monday, for our recap podcast discussing each episode of this singular show’s last season. This is a bonus pod of Fake The Nation, Negin’s other fab podcast.
This show will be the first ever art exhibit showcasing the work of the New Jewish Culture Fellows, and I’m so thrilled to have my work included!! It’s no exaggeration to say that NJCF has dramatically changed my work and life for the better.
All the thanks to NJCF, The Jewish Museum of Maryland, and Leora Fridman, for her fantastic curation. See you there!!
There are so many places to check out Anatevka coming up!
Coming Very Soon! The Box is a 2-person exhibition with works by me and the brilliant Anne Mourier, a feminist, visual conversation about our faiths of origin. Many thanks to Aaron Rosen and the Luce Center for the Arts and Religion.
Creating this show with Anne, an artist and human I hugely admire, has been a joy.
What a night!! This last Wednesday my newest short film, Anatevka, had its US premiere at Lincoln Center, and I am still totally blissed out. The film showed on a night of short films by female directors.
My young cast got to see their phenomenal performances on that iconic big screen, and the audience really connected with the film. As filmmakers, we can’t really know how our projects will land with folks outside our loved ones until they show publicly. Hearing the laughter as my film played in that big room was a really special, gratifying experience.
More exciting Anatevka news coming soon!! Stay tuned.
My incredible young movie stars posing at the festival.
Hadar Ahuvia, my fabulous star and collaborator, on the big screen.
No one does dapper like my husband.
The Q & A on stage after the screenings. Such an honor to chat with these remarkable filmmakers!
Dreamy does not begin to describe how I feel about appearing as a guest this week on the Fake the Nation podcast with Negin Farsad. We were joined by drag legend EUREKA O’HARA!!!
Eureka O’Hara, people. The queen you know and love from Rupaul’s Drag Race, from All Stars, and from We’re Here on HBO!!!
Getting to chat about current events with these two legendary ladies was such a blast!!
Thank you Toronto!! Beyond excited for Anatevka to win best short at this year’s festival.
HUGE NEWS!!!! My new short film that I wrote and directed, Anatevka, will premiere at Lincoln Center, on January 18th, as part of the New York Jewish Film Festival!!!
Lincoln Center and/or Jewish Museum members can buy tickets starting Dec 13th, and they’re available to everyone on Dec 15th.
Anatevka will be showing on a night celebrating shorts directed by female-identified filmmakers.
Hope to see you there!!!!
I’m just back from Vienna, where I attended the opening for “100 Misunderstandings About And Among Jews,” at the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna. My video piece, Dangerous Opinions, is on view, and challenges the misunderstanding that we cannot publicly criticize Israel.
I love this show!! It’s thoughtful, smart, includes an incredible selection of works, and fearlessly engages with some of the most fraught issues in contemporary Jewish life. Having my work included really is a thrill.
From top to bottom:
Me and Caitlin Gura, one of the exhibition’s wonderful curators.
With dreamboat/dream date/dream husband/velvet assassin, Aamir Wyne.
Visitors watching my piece.
Big News! Anatevka, the short dark comedy I wrote and directed, is now finished!!
I am so, so excited about this project, and can’t wait for it to be in the world. Even from just the poster above, you can see what a truly fabulous job the kids starring in this film did. I’m blown away.
Some big announcements and much more info coming soon, but for now I just want to thank every human (there were so many!!) who helped bring this project to life. I’m so lucky.
You can learn more about Anatevka by clicking here.
Photographs by @_emilyteague
If you find yourself in Vienna between late November and June, I hope you’ll check out “100 Misunderstandings About and Among Jews,” a group exhibition that includes my work! I feel extremely lucky to be included in this show, especially because this theme could not be more timely.
This is my first time ever exhibiting work in a European museum!! I can’t wait.
If you will be in Vienna on Nov 29th, and would like to attend the opening, please let me know, so I can put your name on the list. I’ll be there!!
Getting to chat with the brilliant Mickey Noonan on The Standard Issue podcast about my work in general and CHOSEN, my solo show in London opening today (!) was an utter joy. It’s a rare and special thing to get to discuss my work with such a thorough, curious, and fun journalist. I hope you’ll listen!
Click here to hear to my episode, titled, “Danielle Durchslag and the dynasty of frozen cake.”
