I don’t normally review short films or visual albums unless they are particularly noteworthy, and my two previous forays into this realm of filmmaking – namely Child Gambino’s groundbreaking video for “This Is America” and Mike Mills’ extraordinary visual album he made in collaboration with The National, I Am Easy to Find – were astonishing…
Category: experimental
Scorpio Rising (1963)
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night” ~ Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” In the history of experimental cinema, very…