1. Barbara Rubin was an American filmmaker and performance artist.
11 Facts About Barbara Rubin
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Barbara Rubin is best known for her landmark 1963 underground film Christmas on Earth.
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Barbara Rubin grew up in the Cambria Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York City.
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The short film was inspired by Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures, over which Rubin clashed with censors alongside Mekas and P Adams Sitney.
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Allen Ginsberg was so impressed by Christmas on Earth he initiated an affair with Barbara Rubin after seeing it for the first time.
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In 1965 Barbara Rubin was the subject of one of Warhol's Screen Tests.
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Later that year Barbara Rubin, dressed as a nun, projected Christmas on Earth onto the performing Velvet Underground as part of Andy Warhol Up-Tight and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia performances, accompanying the EPI on the road.
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Barbara Rubin helped nurse her friend Bob Dylan back to health after his motorcycle accident in 1966, and appears on the back cover of his album Bringing It All Back Home.
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Barbara Rubin organized a two-week multimedia festival, "Caterpillar Changes," at the Filmmakers Cinematheque in 1967, in which films by Harry Smith, Shirley Clarke, Storm de Hirsch and others were projected onto torn sheets and through hanging streamers.
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Barbara Rubin later moved with her husband to a religious community in the South of France in 1973.
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Barbara Rubin died of a postnatal infection in France in 1980 after giving birth to her fifth child.