MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA & original piano score by TARAS LUKA

Live Cinema Experience Following two sold-out performances in New York, Ukrainian-Canadian award- winning composer and pianist Taras Luka returns to New Jersey with Man With a Movie Camera — a live cinema experience combining Dziga Vertov’s groundbreaking 1929 silent film with Luka’s original piano score, performed live. Created in Ukraine and filmed in Kyiv, Odesa, and Kharkiv, Man With a Movie Camera is one of the most influential works of avant-garde cinema. In Sight & Sound’s 2014 poll, it was named the greatest documentary film of all time. At the heart of the project is the revival of silent cinema with live music as a distinct art form. Through a contemporary reimagining of Man With a Movie Camera, the audience does not simply watch a historic film — they experience it as a living work of art, where cinema, music, and the presence of the performer come together in real time. Nearly a century after the film was created, Luka’s original score establishes a new dialogue with Vertov’s images and rhythms. Rather than simply accompanying the film, the music becomes part of the storytelling, transforming each screening into a live performance shaped by the interaction between the screen, the pianist, and the audience. The project has already been presented across Canada and the United States, including two sold-out performances in New York. October · Guest Artist Presentation at Guest Artist at NYU Tisch School of the Arts - Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies (non-public). Private academic presentation · Not open to the public The following evening, October 22 at 7:30 PM, Man With a Movie Camera returns to a New York audience at the Ukrainian National Home NYC. October 24, 2026 · 7 PM $ 30 PRESALE $ 40 WEEK OF SHOW FORTE PIANO MUSIC COMPANY, NJ 159 Rte 4, Paramus, NJ 07652 Taras Luka — piano & original score Man With a Movie Camera (1929) — Dziga Vertov tarasluka.com https://www.instagram.com/taras.luka/ One film. One pianist. One night in New York.