As you may have seen in our previous posts, we’re so excited about @thejewishmuseum’s show NEW YORK: 1962-1964. In association with this exhibit, @filmlinc is running a program NEW YORK: 1962-1964, Underground + Experimental Cinema. @filmlinc reminds of us what Jonas Mekas wrote in a 1962 @villagevoice column: “Cinema is beginning to move. Cinema is becoming conscious of its steps. Cinema is no longer embarrassed by its own stammerings, hesitations, side steps. Until now cinema could move only in a robotlike step, on preplanned tracks, indicated lines. Now it is beginning to move freely, by itself, according to its own wishes and whims, tracing its own steps. Cinema is doing away with theatrics, cinema is searching for its own truth, cinema is mumbling, like Marlon Brando, like James Dean. That’s what this is all about: new times, new content, new language.” Witness this transformation of film — the program runs from today July 29th through August 4th! Full schedule in our stories 🔗 Photo one: still from Normal Love, by Jack Smith (1963), who is quoted as having said “I want to be uncommercial film personified.” Photo two: still from Blow Job, by Andy Warhol, © @warholfoundation, a silent film that, while named after the act we know is happening, is only a close-up of DeVeren Bookwalter’s face. As bonus, Lincoln Center will be screening Screen Tests including footage of Susan Sontag, Nico, Ruth Ford, Jack Smith and Ethel Scull, among others. #thejewishmuseum #thejewishmuseumnewyork #filmatlincolncenter #undergroundcinema #experimentalfilm #andywarhol #jacksmithfilm