page_title: Peter Josyph
section_title: Films, directing, and performance
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Josyph / Films, directing, and performance
caption_attribution_description: English: Scene from the film LIBERTY STREET: ALIVE AT GROUND ZERO, directed by Peter Josyph.
context_page_description: Peter Josyph is a New York artist who works concurrently as an author, a painter, an actor-director, a filmmaker, and a photographer.
context_section_description: For 12 years Josyph was Artistic Director of Victory Rep in New York, where he wrote fifty plays and where he acted and directed continually. In addition to the plays of Pinter, Chekhov, and Ibsen, Victory Rep performed originals by Josyph and his adaptations of classic American authors such as Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and surgeon-author Richard Selzer. For two years Josyph played Henry David Thoreau in a one-man play, An Hour at Walden. In January 2014 he played White in Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited at the Weisiger Theatre in Danville, Kentucky, directed by Patrick Kagan-Moore.
  Josyph is President of the Board of the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble, an innovative company that conjoins live original music with new choreography, dance improvisation, film and spoken word. MBDE has based a series of dances on Josyph's series of large expressionist canvases called Louie's, Key West, and another series of dances on his book of dream poetry called Collapse and Calypso. Josyph directed a series of short films for MBDE's internet channel Artcast, as well as a serial feature called No Standing in St. Petersburg.
  In 2001, Josyph co-directed the documentary Acting McCarthy: The Making of Billy Bob Thornton’s All the Pretty Horses (Lost Medallion Productions, 2000), which examines the art of acting in relation to literature (the work of Cormac McCarthy), with actors Matt Damon, Bruce Dern, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Miriam Colon, Julio Mechoso; screenwriter Ted Tally; DPs Fred Murphy and Barry Markowitz; and director Billy Bob Thornton. The documentary is co-directed with Raymond Todd.
  Josyph's feature documentary Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero (Lost Medallion Productions, 2005) is based on a year and a half of filming in Lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks. It won two awards in American film festivals and is a companion to his book Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero. Josyph directed a related short film, I've Got to Go Fix My Flags (Lost Medallion Productions, 2013), also shot at Ground Zero. His film No Standing in St. Petersburg starring Elena A. Shadrina, Anna Istomina, Raymond Todd, and Kevin Larkin, is airing between 2013 and 2018 at his YouTube channel, where he also reads the poetry of Whitman, Keats, Swift, Donne, Blake, Dickinson, and Shakespeare. His film Hell, starring Josyph and Raymond Todd, is also viewable at Josyph's website. His series of jazz films includes G Is Good, a short about night in New York featuring trumpeter Tim Hagans and tabla player Badal Roy; Bad at the Pad, a series of improv duets with Tim Hagans and Jukkis Uotila; Free With Lee, featuring sax legend Lee Konitz in conversation with Tim Hagans; Man With Saxophone: Lee Konitz Back in Boston, with Lee Konitz and pianist Dan Tepfer; and two tributes to jazz legend Bob Belden: Killer Instinct, and 28 If, both featuring Tim Hagans and other members of the original Animation/Imagination band. Josyph also directed a series of short films featuring the Tim Hagans Quartet called Tim Hagans at Dizzy's.
caption: Scene from Peter Josyph's Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero
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