Father Was a Peculiar ManMovie
Join us for a screening of Reza Abdoh’s extraordinary, site-specific work Father was a Peculiar Man, an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov staged in New York City’s Meatpacking District in the summer of 1990. Produced by Anne Hamburger’s En Garde Arts, Father was a Peculiar Man showed how brilliantly Reza applied his specific site-based approach that he developed in Los Angeles to New York City’s urban infrastructure. One of the goals of En Garde Arts’s site-specific journeys through New York’s Meatpacking District was to use the local architecture as a theatrical set while at the same time evoking and playing with the history of the place. The half-deserted cobblestone streets south of Chelsea enhanced the play’s nineteenth-century references. The neighborhood’s past as both a meatpacking and transportation hub via the High Line trains as well as a former center for after-hours sex clubs merge as perfect background for Reza’s spectacular tableaus of gluttony and lust.
About Father Was a Peculiar Man
Father Was a Peculiar Man is a 1990 movie directed by Reza Abdoh.
The production information lists a runtime of 2h 0m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Tom Fitzpatrick, Tom Pearl, Juliana Francis, Tony Torn. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
