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- Title
'Amateur Night at the Movies.' The Charles Theatre and 1960s New York Underground Cinema.
- Authors
Hummel, Berit
- Abstract
The Charles Theatre in New York,s Lower East Side played a central role in the development of underground cinema albeit for a short time: from October 1961 until November 1962, when it had to close due to bankruptcy. Despite its short existence, the theatre was of crucial importance for the underground film scene. Drawing on the Charles, programme notes, press releases and other related material, as well as film reviews and statements by contemporary witnesses, the article investigates the correlation between filmic practices and the social space produced through experimental exhibition practice. Arguing that the Charles, importance consisted in its offering of an in-between space for filmmakers in a commercial movie theatre, this article aims to trace the correlation between the experimental cinema of the time and the spaces where these films were exhibited, investigating the notion of the amateur used as paraphrase for artistic freedom and the idea of a community based on film exhibition.
- Subjects
UNDERGROUND theater; MOTION picture theaters; FILMMAKERS; BECKER, Howard Saul, 1928-; EXPERIMENTAL films
- Publication
Re-bus, 2017, Vol 1, Issue 8, p35
- ISSN
2514-9229
- Publication type
Article