Daniel Zvereff is a first-generation American, whose Russian family emigrated to the USA in 1951 after decades of stateless exile in China. He was raised in Oregon and now resides in Brooklyn, NY, where he practices experimental animation and illustration.
I can’t tell you why I rented the theater downtown, other than that it was inevitable, like the notes of a song. Facing the rows of empty velvet seats, I felt the thrust of potential. At night, doctors stood on stage telling stories—not of...