Gideon Bachmann
Underground New York
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Add rightsFormat DVD Interzone
Original format 16mm
Year 1968
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Gideon Bachmann
Subtitles French
Booklet 52 pages (French, English)
Running time 125 min
Films
UNDERGROUND NY (1968) 88'
JONAS by Gideon Bachmann (1968) 31'
WALDEN (excerpt) by Jonas Mekas (1968) 6'
Description
"New York in the late sixties. An unprecedented dive into the bubbling New York underground, a time and place that would forever change the face of American culture. A German television crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the artistic, musical, poetic and cinematic revolution of the sixties, interviewing the main figures of the "New American Cinema" born in the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of widespread cultural upheaval and growing political protest against the Vietnam War, Bachmann talks with the leading figures of "underground cinema," including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar brothers, and Bruce Conner. Not to mention a visit to the Mecca of the New York art scene of the time, Andy Warhol's Factory, to interview the Pop Art genius himself."
— Scott Hammen