Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin
By Jonas Mekas, Jonas Mekas (Text by), Amy Taubin (Text by), Marc Siegel (Editor), Marc Siegel (Text by), Anne König (Editor), Christian Hiller (Editor), Christian Hiller (Text by), Barbara Rubin (Text by), Richard Foreman (Text by), Chuck Smith (Editor), Chuck Smith (Text by), Sebastian Mekas (Editor), Sarai Meyron (Editor), John Cavanaugh (Text by), Charity Coleman (Editor), Ara Osterweil (Editor)
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By Jonas Mekas, Jonas Mekas (Text by), Amy Taubin (Text by), Marc Siegel (Editor), Marc Siegel (Text by), Anne König (Editor), Christian Hiller (Editor), Christian Hiller (Text by), Barbara Rubin (Text by), Richard Foreman (Text by), Chuck Smith (Editor), Chuck Smith (Text by), Sebastian Mekas (Editor), Sarai Meyron (Editor), John Cavanaugh (Text by), Charity Coleman (Editor), Ara Osterweil (Editor)
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Having entered the New York underground in the 1960s while still a teenager, filmmaker Barbara Rubin (1945–80) quickly became one of its key figures. Her pioneering 1963 double-projection film Christmas on Earth, featuring painted and masked performers engaging in a variety of gay and straight sexual acts, was both aesthetically innovative and sexually provocative. She worked regularly with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol, introduced Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg, and connected Warhol with The Ve...






















