Un Chant D’Amour (1950) by Jean Genet
Saturday, October 15, 1983, 8:00 pm
Rubin/Genet/Taubin
762 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA, 94110
Christmas On Earth, Barbara Rubin, 1963, 30 min., 2 proj. Un Chant D’Amour, Jean Genet, 1950, 20 min. In The Bag, Amy Taubin, 1981, 17 min.
“Last spring’s screening of Christmas… at the Collective—the first in roughly 15 years—made apparent that time had not blunted its transgressive power. Its tangle of bodies etched into the grain of outdated b/w stock, radiating both pornographic specificity and erotic abstraction, functioned as a Rorschach for each person present. Rubin, one of the most important members of the NY avant-garde community in the ‘60s, became a member of a Hasidic sect and died in 1979 giving birth to her sixth child.” – A.T.
Amy Taubin has written for the Soho News, Millenium Film Journal, and others, and is currently video film curator for The Kitchen. She will present tonight’s program, including her most recent film.