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The Innerview + ScreenTalk by archivist Ross Lipman and film scholar Elena Gorfinkel (12A*)

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The Innerview

A newly restored screening of Richard Beymer’s trippy 1960s lost film from one of the minds behind Twin Peaks.

In a beat-generation-esque tale of a young kid from Iowa trying to find his feet in big, bad Hollywood, The Innerview explores the dark underbelly of society and 60s psychedelic/psychological culture.

This rare screening of Richard Beymer’s 1975 long-lost psychedelic film newly restored after decades in obscurity. Known for West Side Story and Twin Peaks, Beymer left Hollywood in the '60s to pursue bold, experimental filmmaking. 

The Innerview, blends surreal visuals, sound, and performance in a dreamlike meditation on creativity and consciousness. Lost for years due to constant re-editing, this 1975 version, restored with Northeast Historic Film and the NFPF, is the only surviving cut. 

With thanks to Ross Lipman and Elena Gorfinkel.

£10.40

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Biographies

Ross Lipman is an independent filmmaker, archivist, and essayist. His films have screened throughout the world and been collected by museums and institutions including the Academy Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, Northeast Historic Film, the Oberhausen Kurzfilm Archive, Budapest's Balazs Bela Studios, and Munich's Sammlung Goetz. His feature documentary Notfilm was named one of the 10 best films of the year by ARTFORUM, SLATE, and many others. Formerly Senior Film Restorationist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, his many restorations include Barbara Loden's Wanda, Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles, the Academy Award-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, and works by Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Shirley Clarke, Charles Burnett, Kenneth Anger, Lourdes Portillo, Robert Altman, and John Cassavetes. He was a 2008 recipient of Anthology Film Archives' Preservation Honours and is a three-time winner of the National Society of Film Critics' Heritage Award. His writings on film history, technology, and aesthetics have been published in Artforum, Sight and Sound, and numerous academic books and journals.

 

Elena Gorfinkel is a film scholar and critic based in London. Her research concerns marginal and independent cinemas, including adult, experimental, & underground film, particularly from the 1960s to the present. She is Reader in Film Studies at King's College London. Prior to King's, she was Associate Professor of Art History & Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She earned a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University. Born in Soviet Ukraine, she emigrated and grew up in New York City.

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