Christmas on Earth Continued

N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Treatment script for an unproduced film.

A planned sequel to "Christmas on Earth," an absurd, Beat-era stream-of-consciousness narrative following the Snow Queen and a group of fairies as they attempt to save Jean Genet (playing himself) from life as a Bowery Bum.

Filmmaker Barbara Rubin was a figure of almost mythical importance in the New York underground. Rubin introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground, was friends with Bob Dylan and a former lover of Allen Ginsberg, and helped Jonas Mekas organize the Film-Makers' Cooperative, all before converting to Orthodox Judaism at 24 and moving to France with her husband and children. Rubin is today best remembered for her transgressive 1963 masterpiece, "Christmas on Earth," a 16mm film so sexually explicit it sent ripples through the New York film scene and was subject to multiple censorship efforts by the police, made when Rubin was only 18 years old.

Self wrappers. Title page present, copyrighted 1965, with credit for screenwriter Barbara Rubin. 32 leaves, with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, with light rust marks along the binding, bound with three staples.

[Book #160196]