Travelling Light: Recent Episodes
National Theatre
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams. The National Theatre's 2012 production of Travelling Light was directed by Nicholas Hytner and starred Antony Sher.
The actor, author and artist Antony talks to Sue MacGregor about his career, and his latest role in Travelling Light. This video is formatted for iPad/Mac/PC.
This film documents the process behind making video for Travelling Light and features Video Projection Designer Jon Driscoll.
Film historian Christopher Frayling talks to Joel Finler about the early Hollywood film-makers - including the Eastern Europeans Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, and Louis B Mayer - as depicted in the National Theatre play, Travelling Light. This is an archive recording of a live Platform event from April 2012.