Filmmaker and professor Pearl Gluck’s provocative latest dramatic short film centers on Malke, a Holocaust survivor and sex-ed teacher who has been leading a secret life for decades: performing slam poetry on the Lower East Side. Castles in the Sky features commanding performances from actor Lynn Cohen, who died in 2020, and poet Venus Thrash, who died in 2021.
Lynn Cohen | Malkeh |
Shoshana Berger | Chicken Koshering Class |
Chana Horowitz | Chicken Koshering Class |
Esther Mandel | Chicken Koshering Class |
Shani Mendelevitch | Chicken Koshering Class |
Emily Seiff | Chicken Koshering Class |
Bee Weisberger | Chicken Koshering Class |
Nico Weisberger | Chicken Koshering Class |
Sarah Chany Rosenberg | Wigmaker |
M Miller | Women's Ethics Sermon |
Melissa Weisz | Shayndi |
Audrey Lang | Bride Class |