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Too Many Creeps: New York Underground Film

Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House

August 20, 2011

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Blank City dir. Céline Danhier, US, 2010, video, 94 mins, color. Blank City tells the long-overdue tale of a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. In the late 1970s and mid-80s, when the city was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these directors crafted daring works that would go on to profoundly influence the development of independent film as we know it today. Directed by French newcomer Céline Danhier, Blank City weaves together an oral history of the “No Wave Cinema” and “Cinema of Transgression” movements through compelling interviews with the luminaries who began it all. Followed at by The Early films of Vivienne Dick--Vivienne Dick’s arrival in 70s New York landed her in the middle of the punk era. Fresh from Ireland and having no experience of making films, she signed up for a course and took up residence on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, right in the middle of a cultural revolution.