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Showing videos filed under: 1960s
Ken Bowser: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune
January 15, 2011"Phil was always a little ahead of the curve," says Ken Bowser, the director of a new documentary on 1960s protest singer Phil Ochs. Ochs wrote and performed folk music in its heyday, weighing in on major political issues of his time and connecting with other singer-activists around the world, from Bob Dylan to Chilean singer Victor Jara. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune talks to people, from Sean Penn to Christopher Hitchens, who were touched by Ochs's music and who knew the singer, who took his own life in 1976 at age 35.Phil Ochs, Transgender Experience, and John Fugelsang
January 14, 2011"Phil was always a little ahead of the curve," says Ken Bowser, the director of a new documentary on 1960s protest singer Phil Ochs. Ochs wrote and performed folk music in its heyday, weighing in on major political issues of his time and connecting with other singer-activists around the world, from Bob Dylan to Chilean singer Victor Jara. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune talks to people, from Sean Penn to Christopher Hitchens, who were touched by Ochs's music and who knew the singer, who took his own life in 1976 at age 35.Got Docs: Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
November 20, 2010"At that time, a Bank of America was something that you burned down. You didn't want to be designing banks." Those are the words of Chip Lord of Ant Farm, a radical architects collectivewith a "South Park sensibility," whose work during the 1960s and 1970s redefined what architects do. Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm is a new documentary by Laura Harrison and Beth Federici that looks back on the escapades of Ant Farm, including their most famous work, Cadillac Ranch.
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