Barbara Rubin
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Female
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Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
Overview: The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. 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 vision belonged to a teenager, 18-year-old Barbara Rubin. A Zelig of the '60s, she 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 35. Lifelong friend Jonas Mekas saved all her letters, creating a rich archive that filmmaker Chuck Smith carefully sculpts into this fascinating portrait of a nearly forgotten artist. An avante-garde maverick, a rebel in a man's world, Barbara Rubin regains her rightful place in film history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-02
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Lost, Lost, Lost
Overview: Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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Venus in Furs
Overview: Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-15
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To Barbara Rubin with Love
Overview: This is a mini-portrait of one of the legendary figures of the 60s who should be credited for the discovery of the Velvet Underground, for saving Bob Dylan's mind after the motorcycle crash, for her pioneering sound/image installations, for keeping the New York Sixties' art community together, for one of the key works of erotic cinema Christmas on Earth, and etc. and etc.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Birth of a Nation
Overview: Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-06
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Hare Krishna
Overview: A short film from Jonas Mekas depicting an afternoon in New York of people joining in singing "Hare Hare"
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-02
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Overview: The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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Dirt
Overview: Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-25
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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Overview: This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to 1990, the film features a cast of counterculture icons including Allen Ginsberg, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono, as well as John and Caroline Kennedy, and Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy Onassis's sister and Warhol muse)—to whom Mekas dedicates the film. The film features footage from the Velvet Underground's first public performance. A portrait of the remarkable life of arguable the twentieth century's most famous artist and leading iconographer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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Satisfaction
Overview: Part of the Dirt Trilogy
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-31
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![Screen Test [ST286]: Barbara Rubin](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qCqJKE3izGwYD3XgXBuAg06KHwL.jpg)
Screen Test [ST286]: Barbara Rubin
![Screen Test [ST286]: Barbara Rubin](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/qCqJKE3izGwYD3XgXBuAg06KHwL.jpg)
Overview: Barbara Rubin, posed against a white wall and brightly lit from the right, smokes, shifts position constantly, glances around, leans forward to put her cigarette out, and gazes off into space. Near the end of the film, she smiles broadly at people off-screen.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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