‘“Filmmaker Robbie Leppzer is the master chronicler of contemporary movements of protest and social change. His latest work, AN ARTIST RESPONDS TO WAR, focuses on the art of puppeteer/painter Peter Schumann, founder of the Bread and Puppet Theater, who describes himself as a “war child,” having grown up in Nazi Germany, and how this propelled him into a life of activism and opposition to war. The subject of his current work is the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as seen through the eyes of this artist. Leppzer has captured the haunting tragedy that Schumann expresses through his large-scale theater productions and paintings. Beautifully filmed and immaculately edited with deeply evocative music, he has managed to capture the power, emotion and outrage of the live performance. This is filmmaking of the very first order.”‘

‘“AN ARTIST RESPONDS TO WAR is a beautiful, heartrending film that meets this moment of global catastrophe and brutality. Robbie Leppzer documents the Bread & Puppet Theater’s story and that of Peter Schumann with the thoughtfulness of the great filmmaker he is.”‘

‘“As a cinematographer myself, I fell in love with the beautiful and poignant images of artistic protest that Robbie Leppzer brings to viewers in the aptly titled AN ARTIST RESPONDS TO WAR. We must all ask ourselves how we can respond to war and genocide, and Peter Schumann and Bread & Puppet can help us answer that question. It is deeply touching how Peter and the Bread & Puppet Theater call upon moral outrage against brutality through their art. Please watch this beautiful film.”‘