95 Lives Podcast: Recent Episodes
Tanya Sleiman
Exploring the loves, fears, styles and hopes of making art in The Big Apple. The untold story of the most famous artist you’ve never heard of: Helen Levitt. 95 Lives Podcast pulls back the curtain to spotlight a strong opinionated American pioneer who innovated through seven decades, creating unforgettable images of New York street life.
Featuring special guest Clementina on Vikivaki (spring song, Icelandic) to welcome the behind the scenes of Helen Levitt, with 95 Lives Producer and Director Tanya Sleiman, with original music and sound mix by Thorbjorn Kolbrunarson.
Podcast Host Tanya Sleiman invites a special guest singer, Clementina, to sing "Viki Vaki" (Vorið kemur) an Icelandic song about spring love and warmth. And the episode explores Helen Levitt's take on the power of love.
Special Thanks: Teacher Jenny in Reykjavik, who taught all her English language students to sing in Icelandic
Recording Engineer: Thorbjorn G. Kolbrunarson Producer and Director: Tanya Sleiman
A special episode in conversation with Photographer Susan Rosenberg Jones and Film Director Tanya Sleiman about family, finding love again, and race in the USA today. Susan shares her work-in-progress self portrait process, and her hopes to publish a book to support widowed folk. The hit song "After Laughter (Comes Tears)" by Wendy Rene. Tune in to see why for Susan Rosenberg Jones, a re-mix might be entitled, "After Tears (Comes Laughter Again)" in this delicious 95 Lives Taza Films podcast episode exploring life and death, grief and relief.
1941
A windy, cold April departure from New York City for sunny Mexico, with a stop in Cuba, and a heartbreak goodbye from James Agee. Is Mexico exactly what the doctor ordered, or just another distraction from heartache and home? How do two bohemian New York Jewish women find their path. Tanya Sleiman explores the empowering trip Helen Levitt and Alma Agee take from the docks of New York one April rainy day in 1941.
It’s not how you count it, it’s how you swing.
Featuring the music of Phil Dwyer and friends
Season 1, Episode 1 of 95 Lives is about the love for Lindy Hop music, and delicious street photography that needs the same great timing.