Underground New York 56 years old

A rare behind-the-scenes 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 Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.

Credits

Michelangelo Antonioni as Himself

Allen Ginsberg as Himself

Jonas Mekas as Himself

Adolfas Mekas as Himself

Shirley Clarke as Herself

Underground New York Cast

Name	Character
Michelangelo Antonioni He was 55, 94 years old when he died	as Himself
Allen Ginsberg He was 41, 70 years old when he died	as Himself
Jonas Mekas He was 45, 96 years old when he died	as Himself
Adolfas Mekas He was 42, 85 years old when he died	as Himself
Shirley Clarke She was 48, 77 years old when she died	as Herself

Underground New York Crew

Name	Department

Underground New York (56 years)

Release day: Monday, January 01, 1968
Runtime: 51 minutes