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  • From: Marc Jeffrey <bandofoutsiders AT live.com>
  • To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] Blank City
  • Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:15:39 -0400

Sounds good. I will be in London end of month.Hope I can catch it


Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:13:56 +0000
From: amilopoulos AT yahoo.co.uk
To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [TypicalGirls] Blank City

This interesting sounding film is showing at the London Film Festival:
 
Blank City

Celine Danhier's authoritative, thorough account of post-punk underground filmmaking in New York City celebrates a time and place where there were no rules.

"New York in the late 70s: the arch, anti-establishment energy of CBGBs punk spreads like a virus through the East Village art scene, with hipsters as likely to pick up a cheap Super-8 camera as a guitar or saxophone. A number of eager collaborations between filmmakers, musicians and performance artists are spawned, and a scene tagged No Wave evolves, with the likes of Jim Jarmusch, Lizzie Borden and Susan Seidelman emerging from it. On into the 80s, and contempt for Reaganite conservatism inspires Nick Zedd's Cinema of Transgression Manifesto, proposing, among other things, 'to go beyond all limits set or prescribed by taste, morality or any other traditional value system shackling the minds of men'. The likes of Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch and Casandra Stark enthusiastically sign up. Celine Danhier's authoritative, thorough account of post-punk underground filmmaking in NYC celebrates a time and place where there were no rules, and where artists were encouraged and supported by their peers, those peers being, essentially, their audience. Contributions from key players are numerous and fascinating, as are the clips from the seminal, hugely influential work they produced".
Michael Hayden
 
 
 


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