Sesión 1: Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland, Time-Life Newsreel + The Brig

Some of the films still celebrated by members of The Group would be instrumental to the information counter-culture, as Adolfas Mekas’ positively ghastly grotesque Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland, Time-Life Newsreel (1967). The same year Watkins released Culloden, and CBS started to air Profiles in Courage, Jonas Mekas made what might be his greatest film (even if he himself would almost certainly not have see it this way): The Brig, an adaptation of Kenneth H. Brown eponymous play as staged by Judith Malina & Julian Beck at the Living Theatre in New York. their own. OLAF MÖLLER