New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema
Film at Lincoln Center presents New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema spotlighting the rise of the New American Cinema, running from July 29–August 4.
Francis Lee
1963 - 1964|
66 minutes
Featuring Francis Lee’s Film-Makers’ Showcase, David Brooks’s Jerry, Storm de Hirsch’s Divinations, Marie Menken’s Notebook, Owen Land’s Fleming Faloon, Stan VanDerBeek’s Breath Death, and Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising.
Rudy Burckhardt
1962-1964|
84 minutes
Featuring Rudy Burckhardt and Red Grooms’s Shoot the Moon, Robert Breer’s Pat’s Birthday, Breathing, Fist Fight, and Harry Smith’s Late Superimpositions.
Nathaniel Dorsky
1963-1964|
86 minutes
Featuring Nathaniel Dorsky’s Ingreen, Andrew Meyer’s Shades and Drumbeats, Gregory J. Markopoulos’s Twice a Man.
Andy Warhol
1964-1966|
71 minutes
Featuring Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests [Reel 16: Paul America, Susan Sontag, Lou Reed, Ruth Ford, Harold Stevenson, Henry Rago, Nico, Alan Solomon, Jack Smith, Ethel Scull] and Blow Job
1963|
76 minutes
Featuring Ken Jacobs’s Blonde Cobra and Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures.
Jack Smith
1963|
120 minutes
A noted influence on Mike Kelley and Andy Warhol, among many others, Jack Smith was a consummate artist’s artist, and Normal Love is one of his most remarkable achievements.
Raymond Saroff
1962-1964|
90 minutes
Featuring Raymond Saroff’s Happenings: One, Carolee Schneemann’s Meat Joy, Ron Rice’s Chumlum, and Barbara Rubin’s Christmas on Earth.
Jackie Raynal
1962-1964|
81 minutes
Featuring Jackie Raynal’s Merce Cunningham and Jonas Mekas’s The Brig.
Alfred Leslie
1964|
86 minutes
Featuring Alfred Leslie’s The Last Clean Shirt, Joyce Wieland’s Peggy’s Blue Skylight, and Michael Snow’s New York Eye and Ear Control.
George and Mike Kuchar
1963-1964|
81 minutes
Fearuting George and Mike Kuchar’s Tootsies in Autumn, A Town Called Tempest, and Lovers of Eternity.
Adolfas Mekas
1963|
82 minutes
Inspired as much by Hollywood comedies and romances of the silent era as by the French New Wave, Adolfas Mekas’s debut feature remains, 59 years after its American premiere in the first New York Film Festival, an irreverent delight, a semi-slapstick vision of true love, and a valentine to cinema itself.
Shirley Clarke
1964|
125 minutes
Based on the novel by Warren Miller about a teenager navigating the violent turf wars and internal hierarchies of Harlem gangs, Shirley Clarke’s The Cool World is a landmark of early American independent cinema.
Film at Lincoln Center presents New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema spotlighting the rise of the New American Cinema, running from July 29–August 4.
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1962 to 1964 was a pivotal moment in the evolution of American arts and culture, especially in New York City. These years, crucial to the development of Pop, Minimalism, and performance, saw the emergence of a new generation of radical artists, as well as venues that gave their iconoclastic work a home and a context. Movies, meanwhile, were undergoing a transformation of their own: the rise of a truly independent cinema, of works unencumbered by the medium’s aesthetic conventions and commercial imperatives.
“Cinema,” wrote Jonas Mekas in a 1962 Village Voice column, “is beginning to move. Cinema is becoming conscious of its steps. Cinema is no longer embarrassed by its own stammerings, hesitations, side steps. Until now cinema could move only in a robotlike step, on preplanned tracks, indicated lines. Now it is beginning to move freely, by itself, according to its own wishes and whims, tracing its own steps. Cinema is doing away with theatrics, cinema is searching for its own truth, cinema is mumbling, like Marlon Brando, like James Dean. That’s what this is all about: new times, new content, new language.”
Presented in association with the Jewish Museum’s exhibition New York: 1962-1964 (on view from July 22, 2022 to January 8, 2023) and Film Forum’s 1962…1963…1964, a related series of the fertile three-year period in cinematic history (July 22–August 11).
Film at Lincoln Center, the Jewish Museum, and Film Forum will offer reciprocal admission discounts to each other’s programs (with proof of purchase). Enjoy $11 tickets at Film Forum’s series with ticket stub from FLC’s series, available only at box office. Enjoy half-price admission to the Jewish Museum with ticket stub from related series, offer good from July 22, 2022 through August 14, 2022. To redeem discounted tickets, email [email protected] or call 212-423-3200.
Organized by Thomas Beard and Dan Sullivan. Co-presented with the Jewish Museum. Special thanks to Ed Halter and Anthology Film Archives.
