Barbara Rubin
Barbara Rubin (* 1945 in Queens , USA ; † 1980 in France ) was an American experimental filmmaker .
Live and act
Barbara Rubin lived and worked in New York. She made contact with the film world in 1963 when she worked with Jonas Mekas in the film-makers' cooperative . Her first and only film of her own was Christmas on Earth (1964), the sensational 29-minute documentary of an orgy on Christmas 1963. Today it is regarded as one of the first documents for the emancipation of women and homosexuals .
In January 1966, she and Mekas filmed a spectacular appearance by the Velvet Underground at a psychiatric congress in the Delmonico Hotel in New York, where she - together with Mekas - questioned the audience in front of the camera about their sexual practices; She also filmed the group's performance in February of that year in the Dom disco . At her suggestion, Gerard Malanga had seen a performance by the Velvets in Café Bizarre in Greenwich Village at the end of 1965 and then recommended Andy Warhol for a new project. She also coined the name for the joint show Andy Warhol Up-Tight .
Barbara Rubin died in 1980 giving birth to a child.
meaning
Barbara Rubin's importance lies above all in the fact that in the 1960s she made connections between different groups of the “counterculture” in New York. She put Warhol, Bob Dylan , Jack Smith and Allen Ginsberg in contact . In doing so, she created the basis for multimedia art forms such as the happening , which resulted from the combination of previously disparate interests. As early as 1964, Rubin was one of the first representatives of the “ New American Cinema ” to experiment with multiple projections by projecting different rolls of film over and next to each other and also coloring them with colored lenses. A technique that Andy Warhol later adopted for Exploding Plastic Inevitable . Rubin's work was mostly based on an erotic theme. Due to the arbitrariness of the screening, her films became “open works of art” that evoked free associations and interpretations.
literature
- Victor Bockris , Gerard Malanga : Up-tight. The Story of The Velvet Underground . Cooper Square Press, 1983 (Reprint 2003), ISBN 0815412851 . (English)
Web links
- Barbara Rubin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Husslein: Pop goes art. Andy Warhol & Velvet Underground . Institute for Pop Culture, Wuppertal 1990, p. 9
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rubin, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American experimental filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Queens , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1980 |
| Place of death | France |