Counter-Culture / Counter-Cinema: Underground with Andrew Meyer

Andrew Meyer, unsung cineaste from the 1960s New York underground, made several groundbreaking films documenting alternative lifestyles, non-normative sexualities, and desire’s many modalities before immigrating to the West Coast to direct deliciously tawdry features for Roger Corman. A crucial figure whose stylistic features point to and borrow from the perverse pleasures of Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures as well as Andy Warhol’s star-factory, Meyer’s work demonstrates not only the New American Cinema’s heterogeneity, but also its commitment to transforming cinematic practice into a vehicle for counter-cultural activity. 

PROGRAM:

Andrew Meyer, Shades and Drumbeats. 1964. 25 min. 

Andrew Meyer, Match Girl. 1966. 26 min.

**Screening with a newly restored print of Ron Rice's Chulum!**

Programmed by David Fresko.