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ICB Artists' Ferlinghetti Film Night at Gallery 111
Date: Wednesday, July 1
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Gallery 111, ICB Building, 480 Gate Five Road, Sausalito
Cost: $5.00 for non-ICB artists; everyone should bring food or beverage to share
On July 1 at 7:00 the ICB Artists and Studio 300A will present a screening of the new Christopher Felver documentary "Ferlinghetti". This film was just premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival and has also been accepted for the Sundance Film Festival. Since the San Francisco premiere, eight additional minutes have been added to the film, which will be shown in this form for the first time at Gallery 111.
You can check out the film's trailer here. It is hoped that Sausalito-based filmmaker Felver will be present for the evening but this has not yet been confirmed.
The announcement wereceived from Studio 300A at ICB included the following background information:
"The poet and writer Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an iconic presence in the world of arts and letters. For well over half a century he has helped shape the currents of poetry and literature through his forceful engagement with society. Armed with an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political dogma of his day, Ferlinghetti became the best selling poet of the modern era, a literary mercenary and a rebel at the forefront of a cultural revolution.
"In this definitive documentary, director Christopher Felver crafts an incisive, sharply wrought portrait that reveals Ferlinghetti's true role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Felver's one-on-one interviews with Ferlinghetti, made over the course of a decade, touch upon a rich mélange of characters and events that began to unfold in postwar America. These events include the publication of Allen Ginsberg's Howl, William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, as well as the divisive events of the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, and this country's perilous march towards intellectual and political bankruptcy. Since its inception in 1953, Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore quickly became an iconic literary institution that embodied social change and literary freedom. Continuing to thrive for over five decades, it is a cornerstone of America's modern literary and cultural history."
For more information on the event, call 415-331-2222.
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Posted by: Barry Peterson | 06/21/2009 at 02:58 PM
Thanks, Barry -- this mssing link was an omission on our part and we have now corrected it. Thanks very much for pointing this out.
Posted by: Editors | 06/21/2009 at 10:14 PM