crossover of the underground?
He developed Underground Cinema 12, a series of midnight showings that played in 22 cities.
Daniel Belasco, "The Vanished Prodigy"
7. Name at least three important friends/relationships Barbara Rubin had in the world of art and music in the early 1960s.
Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol.
8. Briefly describe Rubin's production and exhibiton practices for Christmas on Earth. Why does Belasco argue that Christmas on Earth cannot be reproduced electronically or in other forms?
The film was produced by locking her friends into an apartment for 24 hours and letting them have fun. She edited it with no purposeful connections. It is shown in superimposed projection of unequal sizes, accompanied by whatever happened to be on the radio. Therefore each showing is unique and cannot be reproduced.
Toby Mussman’s review of The Chelsea Girls
9. How does Mussman compare and contrast Warhol’s work in The Chelsea Girls with the work of the following directors?
Luis Bunuel - similar to his explosive, monumental L'age d'or.
Alfred Hitchcock - Warhol doesn't manipulate the audience towards a planned ending, he has an open ended resonse.
Jean-Luc Godard - similarity: role playing, "Cinema to Sieze Life". difference: metaphorical cinema (JLG) vs close to life, cinema as reproduction of life (W)