Collections/August 2020
Four Documentaries by Ron Mann
Featuring a new introduction by Mann Essential records of North America’s pop-culture underground, the documentaries of Ron Mann are deep dives into some of the most vital and often overlooked artistic movements of the twentieth century. Finding offbeat inspiration in the creativity that flourishes outside the mainstream, he has chronicled everything from free jazz ( Imagine the Sound ) to modern poetry ( Poetry in Motion ) to comic books ( Comic Book Confidential ), along the way capturing invaluable interviews with cult luminaries like musicians Cecil Taylor and Archie Shepp, writers William S. Burroughs and Charles Bukowski, and cartoonists Jack Kirby and Robert Crumb. Made in the same outsider spirit as the subjects he chronicles, Mann’s films are engagingly idiosyncratic odes to iconoclasts and visionaries bold enough to follow their own muses. Added on Monday, 3 August 2020
4 films — 0 on the Channel, 4 unavailable
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