Face Addict
Face Addict
dir. Edo Bertoglio
Italy / Switzerland / USA, 2005 - 102
In the late 1970’s, the New York cultural underground experienced a quite exceptional period of development and vitality. Young artists, composers, film directors, photographers and writers began to move into abandoned industrial buildings in south Manhattan, in Soho and the East Village. Free of all links with the establishment, they were able to embark on a quest for new styles, ideas and experimentation in all areas, blithely combining arts, sex, drugs, and rock music. Several important figures emerged from this giddy mix, such as Keith Harring, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass and Nan Goldin.
The film’s director, himself a part of the “Downtown Scene”, returns twenty years later to these places that had such an influence on his youth, and seeks to show a different facet of this milieu in which art and life were blurred, highlighting the stories of sometimes lesser known protagonists who contributed to this exceptional phase of New York’s boheme.
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