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30/9/2010

Raw Stock: No Wave Films from Downtown NYC, 1976-1984

Louis V E.S.P., New York

Selected screenings from New York's own explosive yet fleeting era of filmmaking known as "No Wave" Cinema. Rising from the ashes of a bankrupt and destitute 1970's Manhattan, and reacting to the modernist aesthetic of 1960's avant-garde film, No Wave filmmakers threw out the rules and embraced their own brand of vanguard moviemaking. Inspired by the films of Warhol, Jack Smith, John Waters and The French New Wave many of the films combined elements of documentary and loose narrative structure with stark, at times confrontational imagery. Much like the No Wave music of the period from which the movement garnered its label, these filmmakers freed themselves of the constraints of formal training and pillaged the nascent East Village arts scene for co-conspirators in the likes of Lydia Lunch, James Chance, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, Richard Hell, Vincent Gallo, Steve Buscemi, Nan Goldin, Cookie Mueller and many others. Curated by: Vanessa Roworth, Sabine Rogers & Celine Danhier, director of the documentary Blank City.

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