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7 Short Documentaries Including The Man Behind The Merferds at the St. Louis International Film Festival

7/19/2018

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Saturday, July 21 - 2:30 pm
Washington University
Brown Hall Auditorium

The Man Behind the Merferds
A short film by Josh Herum
Phil Berwick, a street artist in St. Louis, uses his paintings of Merferd — a bearded character he has been drawing for four decades — to carry a message of peace, hope, and love to some of the darkest areas of the city.

The 27th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival provides St. Louis filmgoers with the finest in world cinema — international films, documentaries, American indies, and shorts that can only be seen on the big screen at the festival.

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The Man Behind the Setars

10/16/2017

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One evening, in the University City Loop Phil and Merferd were fortunate enough to meet a gifted Kurdish musician. He was playing near Ranoush, a Middle Eastern/Syrian restaurant. The restaurant had been damaged during the recent protests. And the Merferd and Ranoush trolley peace train picture was still covering the broken glass front doors.

As you watch him playing, the camera moves to the restaurant. Merferds are covering part of the restaurant. That part of the restaurant was damaged when protesters took to University City, Missouri a few weeks earlier.

His host church is one of all races and an especially goodly amount of recent immigrants. We could not have sought out a better musician as an opening act for our documentary November 10 and 11 at 7:00 pm at New City South.

Phil and Merferd were taken into outer-space and back. They were taken to the ends of the earth and back.
They were raptured by his music. They stood there in awe. Then he told us that the song was thousands of years old.

We are honored that he'll be performing before the documentary "The Man Behind the Merferds," November 10th and 11th as the doors open at 6:00, at a place of many peoples and nations "New City South."

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Memphis Meets Merferd

10/1/2017

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Merferd and Phil traveled to Memphis to share their message, have some fun, admire the work of other artists. and visit with art fans down South on the River.

The Event:
Paint Memphis 2017 is a free event open to the public with live music, food trucks, vendors and an all-day art show! Our paint festival is designed to highlight overlooked communities in our city and to encourage communal growth within Memphis. For the past two years, the festival has taken place at a floodwall at Chelsea and Evergreen in North Memphis with over 200 artists from across the world participating. This year the festival will take place on Saturday, September 30th under the bridge on Willett Street between Central Avenue and Lamar Avenue, as well as at Altown, the skate park located at Roland and Lamar, on the edge of Cooper-Young.

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