Underground New York (1968)

A rare behindthescenes view of the exploding New York underground in the late sixities a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever A German TV crew led by journalist Gideon Bachmann explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art music poetry and film and interviews the main players in the New American Cinema that was born on the streets of New York Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in underground film including Jonas Mekas Shirley Clarke the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era Andy Warhols Factory to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself