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35-441: No wave cinema, also known as New Cinema (after a short-lived screening room on St. Mark’s Place run by several filmmakers on the scene), had a significant impact on underground film. They were influenced by the works of Andy Warhol , John Cassavetes , George Kuchar , Ron Rice , John Waters and Jack Smith . The No wave cinema of Scott B and Beth B , Eric Mitchell , Jamie Nares , Amos Poe , Diego Cortez and others spawned

70-451: A Nicolas Ballet curated exhibition entitled Who You Staring At: Culture visuelle de la scène no wave des années 1970 et 1980 ( Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s ). Featured in the installation was Scott B and Beth B 's 11 minute film Letters to Dad (1979). An interview with Beth B , No Wave film screenings and musical performances, with three recorded conversations with No Wave artists, were included as part of

105-495: A building between Washington Square North, Fifth Avenue, West Eighth Street, and the Whitney Museum site. Sailor's Snug Harbor, the other major land owner, demolished the blocks from Fifth Avenue to Broadway on the north side of Eighth and Ninth Streets, including the popular Brevoort Hotel. It replaced these blocks mainly with low-rise apartment buildings and stores, as well as two high-rises . Around this time, West Eighth Street

140-480: A collection of essays on alternative film. In 2007 Deathtripping was republished by Soft Skull Press, this was followed by a re-printing of Naked Lens: Beat Cinema in 2008. Sargeant is the editor of the journal Suture , and has co-edited the books Lost Highways: An Illustrated History of the Road Movie (with Stephanie Watson) and No Focus: Punk on Film (with Chris Barber). In 2014 his collection of essays on

175-734: A new generation of independent filmmaking in New York that included Jim Jarmusch , Tom DiCillo , Steve Buscemi , and Vincent Gallo , as well as the Cinema of Transgression movement of Richard Kern , Nick Zedd , Tessa Hughes-Freeland , Kembra Pfahler , and Gordon Stevenson . Other filmmakers associated with No wave cinema included Lizzie Borden , Bradley Eros , Aline Mare , Jeanne Liotta , Charlie Ahearn , Coleen Fitzgibbon , David Wojnarowicz , Manuel DeLanda , Vivienne Dick , Jon Moritsugu , Susan Seidelman , Kathryn Bigelow , Casper Cunningham, and Casandra Stark Mele . In 1978, Jamie Nares released

210-563: A no wave concert to benefit Colab called X Magazine Benefit , documenting performances of DNA , James Chance and the Contortions , and Boris Policeband in NYC in the late 1970s. Shot in black and white Super 8 and edited on video, the film captures the gritty look and sound of the music scene during that era. In 2013 it was exhibited at Salon 94, an art gallery in New York City. Sources: Like

245-1028: A recording by the experimental group I/O. He has promoted and organised shows for filmmakers and artists at the Horse Hospital in London and Cinematheque in Brighton, UK, and has also toured film festivals in America, Europe, and Australia, including the New York Underground Film Festival , the Chicago Underground Film Festival , Melbourne Underground Film Festival , Brisbane International Film Festival , and Sydney Underground Film Festival. In 2002 and 2003 he collaborated with Simon Kane on The Salon, an annual event that has featured performances by David Tibet , Cosey Fanni Tutti , and Cotton Ferox. Since 2008 he has been Program Director for

280-675: A regular column for the Australian film magazine FilmInk focusing on unusual areas of film culture. He has also appeared as an occasional guest on ABC Radio National's MovieTime. Between 2001 and 2003 he was film editor at large for Sleazenation . He has written cover notes for DVDs by various underground and independent filmmakers, including the British Film Institute 's DVD release of Kirby Dick 's film Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist and their Jeff Keen DVD box set. In addition he has contributed liner notes to

315-702: A well-known no wave Super 8 film titled Rome 78 , her only venture into feature-length, plot-driven film. Despite its large cast in period costumes, the work was not intended as a serious undertaking, as the actors interject self-conscious laughter into scenes and deliver seemingly improvised lines with over-the-top bravado. The film features no wave cinema regular Lydia Lunch along with Mitchell, James Chance , John Lurie , Judy Rifka , Jim Sutcliffe, Lance Loud , Mitch Corber , Patti Astor , artist David McDermott of McDermott & McGough , and Kristian Hoffman , among others. Coleen Fitzgibbon and Alan W. Moore created an 11:41-minute film in 1978 (finished in 2009) of

350-541: Is considered a main cultural street for the East Village . Vehicular traffic runs east along both one-way streets . St. Mark's Place features a wide variety of retailers. Venerable institutions lining St. Mark's Place have included Gem Spa and the St. Mark's Hotel. There are several open-front markets that sell sunglasses, clothing, and jewelry. In her 400-year history of St. Mark's Place ( St. Marks Is Dead ), Ada Calhoun called

385-477: The Throbbing Gristle TGV DVD box set. As a public speaker Jack Sargeant has given numerous talks on a variety of subjects including the work of JG Ballard, William Burroughs, and many other subjects often related to subjects he has written about. Sargeant has appeared in numerous film and TV documentaries on culture and film, as well as having cameos in underground films. He has also appeared on

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420-401: The 1840s and 1850s. Many of the homes turned into boarding houses , as the area had 50,000 residents but not a lot of real estate. Tenement housing was also built on St. Mark's Place. By the 1870s, apartments replaced stables and houses along the stretch of Eighth Street west of MacDougal Street. The elevated Third and Sixth Avenue Lines were also built during that time, with stops along

455-524: The 1890s, Eighth Street was co-named Clinton Place in memory of politician DeWitt Clinton , whose widow lived along nearby University Place . In the 1850s, Eighth Street housed an educational scene as well. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art , a then-free institution for art, architecture and engineering education, was opened in 1858. The Century Club , an arts and letters association, relocated to 46 East Eighth Street around that time;

490-478: The 1930s, after Prohibition ended, West Eighth Street became an entertainment area. Around that time, the New York School movement for abstract expressionist painters was centered around Eighth Street, with many such painters moving to Eighth Street. After World War II , property along 8th Street was converted to apartment houses. The Rhinelander Estate, one of the major landowners on Eighth Street, erected

525-609: The Bible House of the American Bible Society , was nearby. In addition, the Brevoort Hotel, as well as a marble mansion built by John Taylor Johnston , were erected at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street. At the same time, German immigrants moved into the area around Tompkins Square Park . The area around St. Mark's Place was nicknamed Kleindeutschland , or "Little Germany", because of a huge influx of German immigrants in

560-753: The Commissioners' Plan was laid out, property along the street's right of way quickly developed. By 1835, the New York University opened its first building, the Silver Center, along Eighth Street near the Washington Square Park. Row houses were also built on Eighth Street. The street ran between the Jefferson Market , built in 1832 at the west end, and the Tompkins Market, built in 1836, at

595-625: The Contortions, Bush Tetras and Sonic Youth. In 2011, the Museum of Arts and Design celebrated the movement with the retrospective "No Wave Cinema", which included works by Jarmusch, Kern, Mitchell, Poe, Zedd, Scot and Beth B., Lizzie Borden , Edo Bertoglio and Kembra Pfahler . In 2023, the No Wave movement, including No Wave Cinema, received institutional recognition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris with

630-521: The East Village by telling readers to "head east from Greenwich Village , and when it starts to look squalid, around the Bowery and Third Avenue, you know you're there." In the 1960s, Macdougal and West Eighth Streets, as well as St. Mark's Place, became a popular area for hippies . A women's clothing store, a pharmacy, and bookstores were replaced by fast food restaurants and other shops, directed toward

665-421: The anger of some Greenwich Village residents. However, other establishments, such as the B. Dalton bookstore, clothing stores, and shoe stores, started to attract tourists to the area. By the 1990s, the areas around both Eighth Street and St. Mark's Place were becoming rapidly gentrified , with new buildings and establishments being developed along both streets. The Village Alliance Business Improvement District

700-488: The area's tourism base. By 1968, St, Mark's Place became a stopping point for tour buses , which formerly skipped the area. In 1977, St. Marks Place became the epicenter of punk rock , when Manic Panic opened its doors on July 7, 1977 (7/7/77). The shop quickly attracted musicians from Cyndi Lauper to the Ramones. In 1980, hot dog company Nathan's Famous moved into the location of a former bookstore on Eighth Street, to

735-592: The early 1900s, Little Germany was shrinking. At the same time, Jews, Hungarians, Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians from Eastern Europe started moving in. In 1916, members of the Slovenian community and Franciscans established the Slovenian Church of St. Cyril , which still operates. At this point, St. Mark's Place was considered a part of the Lower East Side . On the western stretch of Eighth Street, an art scene

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770-558: The east end. These were factors in the street's commercialization in later years. Eighth Street was supposed to extend to a market place at Avenue C , but since that idea never came to fruition. Capitalizing on the high-class status of Bond, Bleecker , Great Jones , and Lafayette Streets in NoHo , developer Thomas E. Davis developed the east end of the street and renamed it "St. Mark's Place" in 1835. Davis built up St. Mark's Place between Third and Second Avenues between 1831 and 1832. Although

805-466: The exhibition. St. Mark%27s Place (Manhattan) 8th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from Sixth Avenue to Third Avenue and also from Avenue B to Avenue D ; its addresses switch from West to East as it crosses Fifth Avenue . Between Third Avenue and Avenue A it is named St. Mark's Place , after the nearby St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on 10th Street at Second Avenue . St. Mark's Place

840-493: The former at Ninth Street and along the latter at Eighth Street . At the southwest corner of Broadway and Eighth Street, the street's first commercial building was built. By the 1890s, buildings on the stretch from Bowery to Fifth Avenue were used for trade. In 1904, the Wanamaker's Department Store opened at the former A.T. Stewart store along Broadway between 9th and 10th Streets, with an annex built at Eighth Street. In

875-428: The island via the rights-of-way of Greenwich Avenue , Astor Place , and Stuyvesant Street . The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 defined the street grid for much of Manhattan. According to the plan, 8th Street was to run from Greenwich Lane (now Greenwich Avenue) in the west to First Avenue on the east. The area west of Greenwich Lane was already developed as Greenwich Village , while the area east of First Avenue

910-790: The later Dogme 95 creative movement, No Wave Cinema has been described as a defining period in low budget film production. Stranger Than Paradise was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2002. In 2010, French filmmaker Céline Danhier created a documentary film titled Blank City . The film presents an oral history of the no wave cinema and Cinema of Transgression movements through interviews with Jarmusch, Kern, Buscemi, Poe, Seidelman, Ahearn, Zedd, John Waters , Blondie ’s Debbie Harry , hip-hop legend Fab 5 Freddy , Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth , and Jack Sargeant . The soundtrack includes music by Patti Smith , Television , Richard Hell & The Voidoids , James Chance and

945-550: The original plan was for Federal homes, only three such houses remained in 2014. Meanwhile, Eighth Street became home to a literary scene. At Astor Place and Eighth Street, the Astor Opera House was built by wealthy men and opened in 1847. Publisher Evert Augustus Duyckinck founded a private library at his 50 East Eighth Street home. Anne Lynch started a famous literary salon at 116 Waverly Place and relocated to 37 West Eighth Street in 1848. Around this time and up until

980-697: The skyscraper at One Fifth Avenue , as well as the Eighth Street Playhouse movie theater, helped influence development on the Sixth Avenue end of the street, where construction of the IND Eighth Avenue Line had required destruction of many buildings there. On an adjoining block, the Women's House of Detention was built in Jefferson Market complex in 1929–1932 and existed through the 1970s. In

1015-428: The street "like superglue for fragmented identities" and wrote that "the street is not for people who have chosen their lives ... [it] is for the wanderer, the undecided, the lonely, and the promiscuous." Wouter van Twiller , colonial governor of New Amsterdam , once owned a tobacco farm near 8th and MacDougal Streets . Such farms were located around the area until the 1830s. Nearby, a Native American trail crossed

1050-519: The unusual. In addition he is a film programmer, curator , academic and photographer. He has appeared in underground films and performances. He currently lives in Australia. Since 1995 Sargeant has written and contributed to numerous books on underground film , including: Deathtripping : The Cinema of Transgression , about Cinema of Transgression filmmakers such as Richard Kern and Nick Zedd , Naked Lens: Beat Cinema , and Cinema Contra Cinema ,

1085-1259: The world of William Burroughs and associated artists such as Brion Gysin was published as Against Control by Swedish publisher Eight Millimetre. In 2016 Amok Books published Flesh and Excess: On Underground Film . Sargeant has contributed to numerous books on subjects ranging from Andy Warhol movies to road rage and car crash songs . His work has been included in collections such as Mikita Brottman 's Car Crash Culture , Mendick & Harper's Underground USA , Wollen & Kerr's Autopia, among others. He has also authored and edited true crime books including Born Bad, Death Cults, , Bad Cop Bad Cop, and Guns, Death Terror . These books have featured contributions from Monte Cazazza , Michael Spann, Andrew Leavold, John Harrison, Simon Whitechapel, Chris Barber, and others. Sargeant has written introductions for Joe Coleman 's Book of Joe and photographer Romain Slocombe's Tokyo Sex Underground . He has contributed to publications such as Headpress as well as Panik, Electric Sheep , The Wire , Fortean Times and Bizarre magazine, as well as academic journals such as Senses of Cinema and M/C . Since 2008 he has written film reviews and

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1120-410: Was also becoming the location of neighborhood commerce. After the elevated train lines were demolished in the 1940s and 1950s, the real estate industry tried to entice residents to the St. Mark's Place area, describing the neighborhood as " East Village ". This area became home to an underground scene, and as it was far from public transportation, it became rundown. A 1965 Newsweek article described

1155-421: Was formed in 1993 to care for the area around Eighth Street. East West St. Mark's Place appears in a variety of works in popular culture. Notable examples include: Notes Bibliography Jack Sargeant (writer) Jack Sargeant (born 1968) is a British writer specialising in cult film , underground film , and independent film , as well as subcultures , true crime , and other aspects of

1190-489: Was growing. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , Daniel Chester French , and other artists moved in the stables at MacDougal Alley at this time. By 1916, a studio complex for artists replaced most of these stables, making the areas around Eighth Street popular for bohemians . Whitney, a patron for other American painters, combined four houses on West Eighth Street houses into the Whitney Museum in 1931. The 1927 construction of

1225-495: Was reserved for a wholesale food market. The plan was amended many times as the grid took shape and public spaces were added or eliminated. The marketplace proposal was scrapped in 1824, allowing 8th Street to continue eastward to the river. On the west side, Sixth Avenue was extended and Greenwich Lane shortened, shifting the boundary of 8th Street, ever so slightly, to Sixth Avenue and allowing Mercer , Greene, Wooster and MacDougal Streets to continue northward to 8th. After

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