Emergency: The Living Theatre

Sep 9, 1968

0h 29m

★ 0.0

Overview

a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces, “Paradise Now” and “Frankenstein.” “The fusion of Brown’s freewheeling direct cinema and the Living Theatre’s performance for revolutionary change (amidst the heydays of both) unite as a dynamic concoction of the era, yielding for the viewer a shifting terrain of both critical insight and ecstatic zeal, not as a vacant nostalgia for a pre-commodified radicality, but as tactical inspiration for future days.” – Andrew Wilson (Artist’s Access Television)

Genres

Drama

Documentary

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Cast

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Julian Beck

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Judith Malina

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Taylor Mead

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Abbie Hoffman

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5.2

Love and Anger

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6.3

The Connection

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A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn, who has disappeared. Leach, a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy, their drug connection, to appear. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.

6.0

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The Art

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Human, Tears, Art

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Academy of Satan

Jan 1, 2009

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0.0

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Jan 1, 2000

A aspiring novelist operates a tiny neighborhood bookstore. His wife is a talented painter. Their marriage is disintegrating, and they are about to sign their divorce papers. Meanwhile, the legendary Casanova and his lover Lavinia are characters trapped inside of a 17th-century children's book. The tragedy of the impending divorce triggers the release of Casanova and Lavinia from the confines of the children's pop-up book.

5.9

And Where Do We Go from Here?

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6.1

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7.5

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Experimental short film. A young woman is left stranded in an abandoned industrial building, bound by 16mm film. Meanwhile, an angel roams a highway. Also known as Jesus With One Leg.

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6.4

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7.0

Days, Months, Years and Nothing Else

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A randomly chosen name and random scenes shot in two different hours. Monologue (story) adapted later according to name and scenes with "Funkadelic - Maggot Brain".

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