The HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES
Using Allen Ginsberg (the inspiration for the HOWL! Festival) as a point of departure, this series of programs links film and video to the various underground creative movements transpiring in the East Village in fact and in spirit: poetry, music, theater, performance, and the fine arts, as well as protests affirming sexuality, opposing gentrification, and supporting the flourishing of a subversive culture.
These screenings will take place the evenings of September 17-20 at the Millennium Film Workshop, with two different film and video programs presented each day, organized around specific personalities, themes, locales, or motifs. Among the planned programs are:
“Allen Ginsberg on Filmâ€,
“Jack Smith and the Lower East Side
(as seen by Ken Jacobs)â€,
“The Living Theater and the New American Cinemaâ€,
“Punk Rock, Forever!â€,
“In and Around Tomkins Square Parkâ€, and
“A Moveable Feast: A Tribute to the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperativeâ€. Special invited guests will appear to introduce individual films in the programs and to engage in a discussion with the audience.
The exclusive venue for
the HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES
will be at the Millennium Film Workshop,
located at 66 East 4th Street in the East Village,
(just a few blocks from the HOWL! Festival’s main performing arts location at 45 Bleecker.) The Millennium has a long tradition of showing work by independent film and video artists, and was a familiar haunt of Ginsberg during his lifetime.
The entire film program for this year’s HOWL! Festival is conceived of and curated by Jon Gartenberg, a film archivist, historian, and programmer.
(Photo credit: Allen Ginsberg by Robert Frank. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Robert Frank.)