This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: "none shall emerge unscathed." Placing their work within the wider alternative film and downtown post-punk scenes, Deathtripping offers detailed analyses of the movement's films alongside interviews with the filmmakers and their collaborators, including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Tommy Turner, Beth B, Joe Coleman, and Lydia Lunch. Also discussed are seminal influences such as the Kuchar brothers, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol as well as the history...
This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: "none s...
Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spiritarguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture"Naked Lens" is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture, and cinema. "Naked Lens" features key Beat players and their collaborators, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Klaus Maeck, and Gus van Sant. As well as examining clearly Beat-inspired films such as "Pull My Daisy, Chappaqua, " and "The Flower Thief,...
Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spiritarguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture"Naked Lens" is a comprehensive study ...