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Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018)
78 min | Documentary

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Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018)

78 min | Documentary

Barbara Rubin's twenty-nine-minute experimental film 'Christmas on Earth' caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1963. Its orgy scenes, double projections and overlapping images shattered artistic conventions and ...See moreBarbara Rubin's twenty-nine-minute experimental film 'Christmas on Earth' caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1963. Its orgy scenes, double projections and overlapping images shattered artistic conventions and announced a powerful new voice in the city's underground film scene. All the more remarkable that the vision belonged to an 18-year-old girl. A virtual Zelig of the '60s, Barbara Rubin introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan to Kabbalah and bewitched Allen Ginsberg. The same unbridled creativity that inspired her to make films when women simply didn't, saw her breach yet another male domain, Orthodox Judaism, before her mysterious death at thirty-five years old. Life-long friend Jonas Mekas saved all her letters, creating a rich archive that film-maker Chuck Smith carefully sculpts into this fascinating portrait of a nearly forgotten artist. An avant-garde maverick, a rebel in a man's world, Barbara Rubin regains her rightful place in film history. See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Bob Dylan Actor (archive footage) Actor (archive footage) See fewer	Renaldo and Clara (1978)
Richard Foreman Self Self See fewer	Now You See It, Now You Don't (2017)
Allen Ginsberg Actor (archive footage) Actor (archive footage) See fewer	Beginners (2010)
Jonas Mekas Self Self See fewer	The Brig (1964)
Barbara Rubin Actress (archive footage) Actress (archive footage) See fewer	Satisfaction (1965)
Amy Taubin Self Self See fewer	'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974) (1974)
Andy Warhol Actor (archive footage) Actor (archive footage) See fewer	Blue Movie (1969)