Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: an avant-garde film festival

Ken Jacobs, Charles S. Cohen, MM Serra, Carolee Schneemann, Jonas Mekas, Jeffrey Deitch and David E. James attend the opening of Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: an avant-garde film festival at the SilverScreen Theater in Pacific Design Center on Thursday, October 14. This landmark festival covers the half-century from the early 1960s to the present, featuring films and videos that explore sexuality, politics, communal experiments, and transgressive appropriations. Co-curated by David E. James and MM Serra, the festival is comprised of films selected from the collection of the New American Cinema Group/New York’s Film-Makers’ Cooperative.