APRIL 18, 2024
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss at the School of Visual Arts in New York City at 2:30pm. Q&A with Thomas Antonic via Zoom, hosted by Regina Weinreich.
APRIL 10, 2024
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, just north of Chicago, at 12:30pm. Q&A with Thomas Antonic after the screening, hosted by Kurt Hemmer.
APRIL 9, 2024
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss at the Indiana University Cinema in Bloomington, Indiana, at 7:00pm. Q&A with director Thomas Antonic after the film. In the afternoon at 4:00pm Thomas Antonic will give a lecture on ruth weiss in the “Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series” of the university. Follow the link for more information.
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The production team is greatly saddened by the death of our co-producer, dear friend, colleague and brilliant film scholar Robert von Dassanowsky. He sparked the idea to make the film One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss in 2016. Without him this documentary would not exist. We will miss his wit, charm, intelligence and energy, his support and our deep conversations. His knowledge and passion for film was matchless. His books on the subject will last. Film director Thomas Antonic’s obituary can be read under the following link: https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2024.a921906
(photo: uccs.edu)
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss at Votiv-Kino in Vienna at 7:30pm. Q&A with director Thomas Antonic after the film.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss at Leo-Kino in Innsbruck as the start of this year’s Sprachsalz Festival in Hall in Tirol.
JUNE 26, 2023
Literaturhaus Vienna hosted an “Evening for ruth weiss” to celebrate the poet’s 95th birthday. Thomas Antonic showed an excerpt of One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss and talked to weiss’ publisher Christa Stippinger (Edition Exil). After that ruth weiss’ friend, chansonnier and actress Lucy McEvil performed songs with lyrics by ruth weiss, accompanied on the piano by Martin Kratochwil.
JUNE 22, 2023
Alte Schmiede in Vienna hosted a tribute to ruth weiss, organized by Thomas Antonic, featuring poets Ann Cotten, Lilly Jäckl, and Thomas Raab, hosted by Alexandra Millner. The entire event can be watched here:
Alte Schmiede also dedicated issue #126 of its journal Der Hammer to ruth weiss, featuring texts by Antonic, Cotten, Jäckl, Raab, and ruth weiss. A PDF of the journal can be downloaded here.
MAY 27, 2023
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss at Stadtkino Bruck an der Mur in Austria. Q&A with director Thomas Antonic, hosted by Barbara Belic (Radio Helsinki).
MAY 3, 2023
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea at the Luggage Store Gallery at 1007 Market St. in San Francisco, with poets Jessica Loos and Jeff Kaliss reading their own and ruth weiss’ poetry, accompanied by ruth weiss’ musicians Rent Romus and Doug Lynner.
APRIL 28, 2023
One More Step West Is the Sea has been selected as the opening film of the Los Angeles International Poetry Film Festival. The screening took place at Beyond Baroque in Venice Beach. To introduce the evening, Bay Area poet K.R. Morisson read ruth weiss’s poetry accompanied by bassist Christian Camacho. A Q&A with the director Thomas Antonic and co-producer Robert Dassanowsky moderated by S.A. Griffin followed after the screening.
APRIL 15, 2023
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea at the annual conference of the Austrian Studies Association at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, followed by a Q&A with director Thomas Antonic and co-producer Robert Dassanowsky.
MARCH 26, 2023
U.S. theater premiere of One More Step West Is the Sea at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on March 26 at 3:50pm. Q&A immediately following the screening with director Thomas Antonic, Tate Swindell (Unrequited Records), plus ruth weiss’s band members Rent Romus & Doug O’Connor! For more info follow the link to the Roxie’s website. The Roxie, 3125 16th Street, San Francisco.
JANUARY 22, 2022
One More Step West Is the Sea was in the official selection and selected as Finalist of the Central Florida Film Festival that happened from January 20 to 22 at Mount Dora outside Orlando.
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Vienna movie theater premiere of One More Step West Is the Sea at Breitenseer Lichtspiele, the oldest still running cinema of the city, on December 8 at 7:00pm. Sparkling wine (Sekt) reception and a short performance by musician Karli Braun with ruth weiss’ voice before the film, Q&A with film director Thomas Antonic and premiere party after the film. The theater will show the film also on December 13 at 6pm and on December 20 at 11:30. For more information go to the website of the cinema.
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
One More Step West Is the Sea is in the official selection of FIDBA – International Documentary Film Festival of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The festival is happening from November 30 to December 5, 2022.
OCTOBER 28, 2022
One More Step West Is the Sea is in the official selection of the 56th International Film Festival in Hof, Germany (Internationale Hofer Filmtage). Wim Wenders once said of the festival that “Hof” means “Home of films”. Screenings will be on Friday, October 28, at 7:30pm, at Central Kino; Saturday, October 29, 5:45pm at Central Kino, and Sunday, October 30, 3pm, at Scala cinema. If you are in Germany you can stream the film after the premiere online for seven days. For more information follow this link.
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Screening One More Step West Is the Sea at 5pm at the Kino im Kesselhaus cinema in Krems, Austria, as part of the conference Gespeicherte Gefühle at Donau-Universität Krems. Q&A with filmmaker Thomas Antonic and Helmut Neundlinger of “Archiv der Zeitgenossen” after the film. For more information follow this link.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss at the Filmoteca in Murcia, Spain, as part of the 10th annual conference of the European Beat Studies Network, organized by Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo and the Departamento de Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Murcia.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea as official selection of PriFest – Prishtina International Film Festival in Kosovo.
AUGUST 8, 2022
Screening of One More Step West Is the Sea as official selection of the 9th Ierapetra International Documentary Film Festival on the island of Crete in Greece. For more information follow this link.
APRIL 30, 2022
We are back after a long, long winter break and excited to announce that One More Step West Is the Sea is in the Official Selection of the Latina Independent Film Festival, according to Italian media the “most anticipated Italian independent film festival of the year”. ruth va alla Cinecittá! Details will follow.
JANUARY 15, 2021
Listen to filmmaker Thomas Antonic in conversation with Benjamin Heal about ruth weiss, his film One More Step West Is the Sea and other projects on the podcast of the European Beat Studies Network here.
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Listen to filmmaker Thomas Antonic in conversation with Adriana Lecuona about ruth weiss and his film One More Step West Is the Sea on the podcast of the Botstiber Foundation for Austrian-American Studies here.
NOVEMBER 6, 2021
The production team is excited to announce that One More Step West Is the Sea won the New York Independent Cinema Awards 2021 in the category “Best International Documentary Feature”!
OCTOBER 21, 2021
First pre-screening in Vienna, Austria, will be tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 22, at “Salon”, Praterstraße 17 (inner courtyard), 8pm. We are looking forward to this exquisite presentation at an exquisite venue.
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Watch film director Thomas Antonic in conversation with Kalle Laar at the Film Festival “Female Presence” in Munich, Germany, talking about ruth weiss, his film and his work, and poet Lisa Jeschke reading from weiss’ works, on September 25, 2021.
AUGUST 12, 2021
New film teaser online now:
JULY 15, 2021
The premiere at Diagonale Film Festival has been a feast. One More Step West Is the Sea received positive reviews throughout Austria and Germany and will start the international festival circuit in fall (details follow).
MAY 29, 2021
The production team is proud to announce that One More Sea West Is the Sea is an official selection of the Diagonale Film Festival in Austria and will have its premiere on June 10th at the Schubertkino in Graz. The second screening will be on June 11th at Annenhof Kino. For more informaton visit the festival website (for extensive notes in German see here).
MARCH 9, 2021
The production team is proud to present the trailer of One More Step West Is the Sea, a film about the legendary Beat poet ruth weiss (name always lowercase), Nazi refugee in the 1930s, innovator of Jazz & Poetry in Chicago in the late 1940s, major female Beat Generation partaker in San Francisco in the 1950s, filmmaker in the 1960s, environmental activist at the Mendocino Coast in the 1980s, still performing at an advanced age in the 2010s. The film by director Thomas Antonic has recently been accepted by the first film festival and will premiere in late spring. Details will follow soon on this website and social media. Stay tuned and trust the bend in the road!
