Barbara Rubin and the Exploding New York Underground
(2023, original release: 2018)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Juno Films, 2018
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2023
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
14422619
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

Barbara Rubin’s was a mythical “Zelig” of the sixties, creating an art porn film masterpiece, Christmas on Earth, that shattered boundaries. she introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan to the Kabbalah. After retiring to a farm with Allen Ginsberg, she shocked everyone by converting to Hasidic Judaism, marrying and moving to France to live an anonymous life. For years, Jonas Mekas treasured all of Barbara’s letters and films. Working with Mekas’ footage, the film takes us inside the world and mind of Barbara Rubin; a woman who truly believed that film could change the world

Film

In Process Record

Originally produced by Juno Films in 2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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