The Barbara Rudin doc can be divided int two parts.
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Biopics are often accompanied by interviews with the subject, if still living, their friends and family with archive footage.
How interesting a biopic is usually is affected by how interesting the subject is. Like most biopics, the doc begin with the background and influences on the subject, traces the rise to fame, then some grave downfall and then hopefully, their redemption to a sort of normalcy in life. Working with Mekas’ footage and rare clips from the Andy Warhol archives, the film reveals inside the world and mind of Barbara Rubin a woman who truly believed that film could change the world and then vanished into obscurity. After retiring to a farm with Allen Ginsberg, she shocked everyone by becoming a Hasidic Jew.įor years, 94-year-old filmmaker Jonas Mekas has saved all of Barbara’s letters and cherished her memory. A rebellious Zelig of the Sixties, she introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan to the Kabbalah.īut beyond shaping the spirit of the Sixties, Barbara was seeking the deeper meaning of life. Barbara was instrumental in creating NYC’s thriving underground film community and a rare female voice in a world of powerful men. The film, showing segments (that are both shocking yet innovative) in the doc, shattered creative and sexist boundaries and shocked NYC’s experimental film scene.īarbara worked for a large part other ‘career’ with Jonas Mekas at the Filmmaker’s Coop. This new doc educates on underground filmmaker Barbara Rubin who rose to fame from her 1964 art-porn so-called masterpiece “Christmas on Earth”, made when she was only 18 years old.
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