The Screen - A Subversive Art: Gimme Shelter
A SUBVERSIVE ART
Raiding the archives of Amos Vogel’s legendary film club, Cinema 16
Gimme Shelter (1970) Albert & David Maysles, 91 mins. Cert 12A.
The Screen at Contemporary returns. This season we celebrate the act of people gathering in a darkened room to watch films together. We present a selection of shorts and features from the infamous film society Cinema 16 (1947–63), run by Amos and Marcia Vogel, which proposed an alternative canon of avant-garde, underground and commercial film. Cinema 16 strived to show only the most pioneering films, and in the process was a major influence on postwar cinema.
The Altamont Speedway Free Festival is now synonymous with the end of the era of love that the sixties had represented. In this cinematic triumph we see Hells Angels that are hired to do security with horrifically devastating results. The Maysles follow the Rolling Stones before, during and after the show, and we are privy to a swaggering front man as well as a quietly embarrassed boy in Mick Jagger. We also see the performative peace and love sentiment that’s impotent to quash any real hate. An incredible observation of both individual and collective masks and how they so easily disintegrate by the godfathers of Cinema Veritie.
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The Screen - A Subversive Art: Gimme ShelterDates:
6 Apr 2022, 6.30pmVisit Safely:
Viewing conditions tickets will be sold at 50% capacity. Guests will be asked to leave space in between each other.