My wonderful friend Hugo Perez is having a preview screening of his doc Neither Memory Nor Magic coming up at the Bowery Poetry Club. Here is his synopsis:

When the Hungarian poet Miklos Radnoti was executed and buried in a mass grave in 1944 after a two-month death march, he did not know whether his poems would survive. Eighteen months later, when his body was exhumed, a notebook was found in his coat pocket that contained his final poems. Neither Memory Nor Magic tells the story of a man who believed in the life of his poems even when he knew that he himself would not survive.

I don’t know much about obscure Hungarian poets and like many, I feel that Holocaust stories have been well-told, but Hugo has done a really lovely job, from what I saw in rough cuts, of elevating this story beyond its elements to dig down into the human experience. If you’ve loved and lost, if you’ve had a passion for your work or have simply experienced the tragedy of losing a loved one, there is something in this movie for you. It’s elegant and moving. Bring a tissue. Check it out on September 28 @ the Bowery Poetry Club. Tickets here.