Bad Lit:Journal of Underground Film (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Nov. 9 8:30 p.m. REDCAT Theater 631 W. 2nd St. Los Angeles, CA Hosted by: REDCAT Village Voice film critic and film historian J. Hoberman is the world’s foremost authority on the 1963 underground film classic Flaming Creatures, directed by Jack Smith. Preceding a screening of the film, Hoberman will discuss the film’s creative origins and the charges of obscenity it [...]
*Twenty years, that’s a good long time. For instance, the entire period Poland spent under Communism was only 45 years. *If history ended in 1989, there are now 20 year old adults around who were born after the end of history and can probably kick the ass of any Marxists or any elderly [...]
At Anthology Film Archives . Here's the program: "Jonas Mekas A LETTER TO PENNY ARCADE (2001, 15 minutes, video) SELFPORTRAIT (1970, 20 minutes, video) WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN (1950/2003, 15 minutes, video) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MAN WHO CARRIED HIS MEMORY IN HIS EYES (2000, 50 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 105 minutes." :: Upcoming Showings: Friday Oct 30 8:00 PM :: More here .
Tomorrow night at Northwest Film Forum, the Sprocket Society presents FOCAL POINTS: Documentary Shorts of 1969 , as part of the year-long 69 series. The program screens (just this once!) at 8 pm. A full list of films is after the jump. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
This Friday, October 9, 7:00 pm — The Way of the Word Poetry Extravaganza curated by Bob Holman, Suzanne Fiol, and Kenneth Goldsmith ISSUE PROJECT ROOM At the Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11215 Tel: 718-330-0313 featuring the amazing poets: Bob Holman Ken Goldsmith Jonas Mekas Anne WaldmanJudith Malina Abiodoun Oyewole (of the Last Poets) Hettie Jones Jeff...
It's not a memorial--that will come later, and in high style--but the Issue Project Room is holding a benefit tomorrow night for its future space at 110 Livingston Street. Honor Suzanne Fio...
George and Mike Kuchar thrilled 1060s New York with their DIY B movies, inspiring everyone from Andy Warhol to George Lucas If directors were ranked according to the greatness of their films' titles, brothers George and Mike Kuchar would instantly be inducted into the pantheon of gods. Together and separately since the late 1950s, these mainstays of the early 1960s New York underground film movement...
Still from "MY CHINA NOW" In conjunction with the upcoming China Design Now exhibition (lots more on that later), the NW Film Center presents Lens on China , a film series that "explores the perspectives of Chinese and western filmmakers whose works reflect on the broad currents of contemporary change in Chinese society. As China's past and future collide, the works by these media artists...
Starting this week, the Los Angeles Bicycle Film Festival celebrates its 6th anniversary. The festival’s purpose is to showcase and bring forward the bicycle in all forms and styles through art, film, music and performance. This year the festival indie rockers Deerhunter and an art show featuring artists such as Aiko, I Love Dust and [...]
VILNIUS - Vilnius can have its Guggenheim Museum despite the current economic crisis, say Vilnius municipality officials. On August 5, a discussion named ‘Guggenheim – an unavoidable good'’ was held in news agency ELTA’s offices. Vilnius’s vice mayor Gintautas Babravicius, and some representatives o...
This is rad [via Harmony-Korine.com] Harmony Korine is one of 42 contributors to the project ONEDREAMRUSH, a creation of the New Zealand vodka company 42Below that invites various individuals to create 42-second videos exploring dreams. Other contributors to ONEDREAMRUSH include Kenneth Anger, David Lynch, Leos Carax, Larry Clark, Jonas Mekas, and Gaspar Noe. In time all [...]
Jared Gruenwald Not available at H&M: Grace Jones In this week's Village Voice , Mike Powell joins fathers and sons and dudes screaming 'GIVE IT TO LARRY' at Steely Dan's Beacon run . Cristina Black on how a Connecticut liberal arts school somehow gave birth to the surrealist Brooklyn pop of MGMT, Amazing Baby, and Boy Crisis . Rob Tannenbaum takes in the mighty Grace Jones and her zebra-striped...
Recommended The Movie: "Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing. . . 'Walden' contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological...
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