"Made for TV: The Collected Works of Tom Rubnitz" Exhibition
Light Industry
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No videomaker captured the spirit of the East Village 1980s demimonde better than Tom Rubnitz, who teamed up with the looniest luminaries of downtown New York to create his incomparable oeuvre of live-action cartoony capers. For over a decade until his death from AIDS in 1992, Rubnitz turned his cameras on clubland¹s most bedazzled, from drag royals like RuPaul, the Lady Bunny, Hapi Phace, Lypsinka and Taboo! to choreographer Michael Clark, musician John Sex, and lavender wit Quentin Crisp. Tackling the tube from all angles, Rubnitz sends up cooking programs, movie ads, music videos and kid's shows; his PBS-broadcast Made for TV parodies the entire cable age by channel-flipping Ann Magnuson through a series of schizophrenic spoofs.
Tonight's screening offers viewers a chance to venture beyond these bootleg samplings, serving up a heaping helping of Rubnitz¹s most outrageous works in all their day-glo glory.
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February 18, 2009 from 19:30