Bibliographic record
Abstract
Distributed by Good DocsProduced by Howard Wiseman and Howard RyppDirected by Howard Rypp2023, Streaming, 51 mins This fifty-minute documentary film is about the production of the one-man play, Gimpel the Fool, in Poland. The play, adapted and performed by Howard Rypp, is based on a story written by Polish-Jewish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer. Rypp, the founder of Theatre Nephesh (which originated in Canada and is now based in Israel) narrates the film, explaining that he is now bringing the production, and Gimpel’s story, back “to its original home” in Poland. Throughout this film, Rypp travels through Poland (often in costume as Gimpel) visiting production venues along with numerous historical and other sites, while working on the play, speaking with audiences, historians, and others about it, and pondering what it would be like for the titular Gimpel to experience modern-day Poland. Throughout the film, Rypp provides viewers with relevant background and historical information and insights. Historical interview excerpts from IB Singer and present-day conversations with others connected to the play, its production, and the historical events that inspired its creation are also featured; as is footage from various performances and rehearsals, as well as photographs and video from historical sites. The juxtaposition of these various elements helps elucidate the play’s significance and encourages viewers of the film to consider connections between the past and the present. Gimpel the Fool Returns to Poland is appropriate viewing for audiences of middle-school age and up. It provides viewers with opportunities to learn about the Jewish Holocaust and to connect this historical awareness to present-day examples of enduring antisemitism. While not overtly instructive, the film also provides some practical insights into the process of creating, producing, and staging live theatre, specifically that which draws on historical inspiration to make a present-day commentary. This film is likely to be of greatest interest to those in the fields of Theatre, the Holocaust, Judaism, and Antisemitism. Awards:Best Documentary, Punta Del Estes Jewish Film Festival; Exceptional Merit, Documentaries without Borders Festival
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.116 | 0.023 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".