Misa's Fugue at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Post date: Oct 31, 2012 2:05:12 AM

While many members of the Misa's Fugue team were participating in the Philadelphia Film Festival, the film's subject, Frank Grunwald, was sharing the film with a very special group at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Over the summer, Frank presented on his sculpture, V#11071945 and its creation to the Museum's docent group. After this

presentation, the group asked if Frank would be interested in sharing the film this fall since the sculpture was an integral part of it and they also wished to learn more about Frank's experience during the Holocaust.

This was the first time Frank presented the film for a formal group and he reported that, "they were blown away by the emotion of it." Many excellent followup questions were asked including more specifics on the preservation of the photographs, Dina's post-war fate, Frank's feelings towards the perpetrators and also how much of the story he had shared with his children prior to the making of the film. He expanded on these items and shared with the group that after the war Dina had emigrated to the United States where she married Art Babbitt, one of the chief illustrator's for Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Dina worked as an artist until her death in 2009.

This screening was very special for Frank and for the Misa's Fugue team. We hope it will be one of many in the midwestern United States.