Barbara Rubin Overview

Barbara Rubin, the great doyenne of the new york underground film scene of the 60s, friend of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Undergroud, co-conspirator and friend of Jonas Mekas was famous for her involvement in the Velvet Underground "up-tight" performance at... [more]

Barbara Rubin, the great doyenne of the new york underground film scene of the 60s, friend of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Undergroud, co-conspirator and friend of Jonas Mekas was famous for her involvement in the Velvet Underground "up-tight" performance at the New York Psychoanalytic Society. Her classic 1963 film, "Christmas on Earth" was one of the first sexually explicit erotic films of the underground American Avant Garde. Allen Ginsberg said, "Her genius was sympathizing with everybody's desire to get together in work with their fellow geniuses." [show less]