FLASHBACK WITH *BENJAMIN RAGHEB
“I am submitting this in the hope of earning the title of Farthest Flashback: it is a video made by David Chottiner and myself (with some help by Andy Maher) in the Spring of 1998. It served as a “cold open” to The Evening of the Arts, an annual student-run variety show.
Although you are watching it on a computer, it was originally recorded and edited on VHS-format magnetic tape, using state-of-the-art play-pause-rewind-record techniques. Afterward it was delivered to the school on foot, in the snow, uphill, both ways.
Some useful things to know when watching:
“Playing for Time” is a play, based on a movie, based on a book about female prisoners in a Nazi death camp who played music for their captors. I played the part of Doctor Joseph Mengele. It was the most humorless thing we had ever taken part in.
Mr. Paul “Scooter” Ejzak served as Assistant Coach for the cross country running team the year before, where he let the students call him “Scooter”; the following year he joined the English Department and asked us to address him as Mr. Ejzak. We tried, but old habits are hard to break.
In 1998 our school issued student ID cards. This video is the only time we ever used them for anything.
Anthony Hopkins appears courtesy Orion Pictures Corporation.”
“Chottiner & Ragheb host ‘An Evening of the Arts’” - “An Evening of the Arts” is an annual student-run performance at Shady Side Academy. In the Spring of 1998, seniors David Chottiner and Benjamin Ragheb asked student organizer Meera Nair if they could host the show. She agreed, and David and Ben made this video to be played in Memorial Hall prior to their entrance. It was edited using dual VCRs.”
*Festival Performer/Winner of Farthest Flashback
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am a winner of something!
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really loved this submission.
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