Film
Me and My Brother + Tongues
- 7PM
Directed by Robert Frank
1969, 91min
The first feature film by revered photographer Robert Frank—co-written with Shepard and poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky—is a vital record of New York’s 1960s underground, employing radical experimentation to explore the relationship between Orlovsky and his schizophrenic brother, Julius.
Directed by Shirley Clarke
1982, 45min
Pioneering independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke documents two innovative, one-act monologue works—Savage/Love and Tongues—by Shepard and his mentor, Open Theater founder Joseph Chaikin.
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