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

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.