Film Culture
The Legend of Barbara Rubin
Author(s) Barbara Rubin, Jonas Mekas
Format softcover book
Year 2018
Language(s) English
Pages 215 pages
Description
Entering the New York underground scene in the 1960s while still a teenager, filmmaker Barbara Rubin quickly became one of its leading figures. Her pioneering 1963 film, Christmas on Earth, made for double projection, is both sexually provocative and aesthetically innovative. She worked regularly with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol, introduced Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg, and connected Warhol with the Velvet Underground. During an intense period of activity and travel, Rubin wrote passionate letters to Mekas about cinema and the underground. This special eightieth-anniversary issue of Film Culture magazine presents her previously unpublished letters to Mekas. It also includes interviews and Rubin's screenplay, Christmas on Earth Continued, a planned sequel to her celebrated film.
This publication is released on the occasion of the exhibition and festival Edit Film Culture! taking place from July 6 to 22, 2018 at silent green Kulturquartier, SAVVY Contemporary, Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin.