2002 ,Samuel Bak, Painted in words
In Painted in Words internationally renowned artist Samuel Bak sets aside his brushes to narrate the stories of his life -- as a child in Nazi-occupied Vilna, as a youth in European refugee camps, and as a maturing artist in Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. With gentle humor, the child prodigy of the faraway past and the accomplished artist of today engage in a spirited dialogue from which emerges a self-portrait of "The Artist as a Young -- and middle-aged and aging -- Survivor