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Hippie Modernism
The BAMPFA in Berkeley will show “Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964– 1974”, a four-month film series focused on the radical cinema of the 1960s and early 1970s.
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) announces “Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964– 1974”, a four-month film series focused on the radical cinema of the 1960s and early 1970s. The series is shown in conjunction with “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia”, a major exhibition examining the intersection of the radical art, architecture, and design of the counterculture period.
Building on Hippie Modernism’s exploration of artistic responses to the social, cultural, and political ferment of the 1960s and 1970s, Cinema and the Counterculture examines the politically charged, aesthetically innovative filmmaking that defined this era. Encompassing documentary, fiction, and experimental cinema—often in the course of a single work—the films in this series intersected with emerging counterculture movements, taking the pulse of the social, political, and aesthetic upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Left: Anderson William Lloyd and Gary Anderson with the recycle symbol at the Container Corporation of America. Right: Isaac Abrams, Hello Dali, 1965. Courtesy the artist
While mass media and commercial movies frequently portrayed the counterculture as naive and ineffectual or violent and dangerous—a distinction often drawn along class and color lines—some filmmakers offered alternative perspectives. From intricate avant-garde animations to critical portraits of pop stars and freedom fighters, Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture is replete with images that remain as vital and compelling today as they were some fifty years ago.
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Barry Shapiro photograph archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Barry Shapiro photograph archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Barry Shapiro photograph archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Barry Shapiro photograph archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Barry Shapiro photograph archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Barry Shapiro photograph archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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until 31 May 2017 Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964– 1974
curated by Lawrence Rinder and Greg Castillo BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley