Since the East Village, or Lower East Side, of NYC is our home turf, we are commited to the artists, filmmakers, poets and performers who live and work here. Our selections begin with the Beats and influential artists like John Cage, pay homage to great Nuyorican voices like Miguel Pinero, documents the ascension of graffiti-oriented art and hip hop culture, the advent of alternative networks such as Colab and ABC No Rio, which would spawn the huge artistic explosion of the '80s when thousands flocked to newly sprung galleries and performance clubs, renegade movements such as the Rivington School, and the newest wave of filmmakers, musicians and spoken word artists to descend the ever-boiling cultural cauldron. Beat legends such as Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, who with Burroughs, Kerouac and Huncke inspired the original East Village bohemian scene, as well as contemporaries such as Cage and James Schuyler, are documented in Mitch Corber's Thin Air videos, and the original Nuyorican poets who along with the Beats presaged the spoken word craze currently making a media splash, are captured in Jim C's Pinero tape and Neither/Nor's Video Void. Colab and Potato Wolf videos show off the next wave of predominantly white artists to hit the area, contemporaneous with the Punk/No Wave music scene documented by scenesters like Glenn O'Brien with his TV Party cable show and its nihilistic ennui captured in the films of Amos Poe, James Nares, Eric Mitchell, and Anders Grafstrom.

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