Castles in the Sky

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.

Drama

Lynn Cohen

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

M Miller

(Women's Ethics Sermon)

Melissa Weisz

Audrey Lang

Arielle Beth Klein

Breiny Scheinert

Morgan Seiff

Brooke Sabel

(Underwater Ritual Bathers)

Dawn Chase

(Underwater Ritual Bathers)

Malky Goldman

(Underwater Ritual Bathers)

Matthew Kohn

Rebecca Kush

Malky Goldman

Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Rivky Weinberger

(Groom's Mother)

Deborah Kahan Kolb

(Bride's Mother)

Lili Rosen

(Yiddish Jokers)

Pesach Eisen

(Yiddish Jokers)

Yossi Weinberger

(Yiddish Jokers)

Venus Thrash

(Slam Poetry Host)

Everton Sylvester

Ron Cohen

(Abe, Bar Owner)

Adam Margules

Luzer Twersky

(Yankel (Jacob) Cohen)

Shaindy Weichman

(30-Year-Old Woman)

Esther Hoffman

Renita Thomas-Franklin

(The Rob & ReRe Show)

Robert Richards

(The Rob & ReRe Show)

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

Jonathan Berman

Lulu Guerrero

Kevin Hagopian

Cynthia Mazzant

Walter Middlebrook

Jack Shmulowitz

Jacinta Bowen

(Slam Poetry Extras)

David Ogrodowski

(Slam Poetry Extras)

Dominika Brice

(Slam Poetry Extras)

Chaya Amor

(Slam Poetry Extras)

Isabella Kalish

(Slam Poetry Extras)

Celia A Nightingale

(Slam Poetry Extras)

Orion Rodriguez

(Slam Poetry Extras)

Morgan Seiff

(Slam Poetry Extras)

Eli Tapuchi

(Slam Poetry Extras)

Dustin Moser