AT PATANTJA CLAY PAN
Australia 1970 | 55 Min. | 35 mm, OF
BUFFALO ON THE ROOF is the name of a six-days festival and camp of Jewish and non-Jewish folkartists in Buffalo-Gap in West Virginia, USA. After its enormous success the year before 1993, it is organized for the second time and documented in a film. The ‘Multicultural Folk Arts Centre’, the famous Klezmer group ‘Brave Old World’ feature amongs other groups from Romania, Poland, Russia and the 1993’s special guest, the Ukrainia. Groups from various other East and West European nations are participating, too. BUFFALO ON THE ROOF, in its celebration of the interrelationship of the Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of Eastern Europe presents an extraordinary opportunity for Jews and non-Jews to explore the riches of their own and each other’s cultures.