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he is a "cultural impresario" or, as his friend Stewart Brand puts it, an "intellectual enzyme". The fi
unching him on the primrose path into the arts. He then got involved in the city's underground movie scene, becoming manager of the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, the home of underground cinema, in 1965, where his mandate was to produce a festival that expanded the form of cinema. He commissioned 30 perfor
arrive at the edge of the worldaTMs knowledge.a Stewart Brand has called Brockman an aceintellectual enzy
rking with underground film- makers, and video artists, which was at this time a revolutionary art genre. In 1965 Mekas invited him to take over the Cinematheque and to initiate an Expanded Cinema Festival there. He invited many great New York artists working in all fields, including Nam June Paik, Andy Warho
he is a "cultural impresario" or, as his friend Stewart Brand puts it, an "intellectual enzyme". The fi
unching him on the primrose path into the arts. He then got involved in the city's underground movie scene, becoming manager of the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, the home of underground cinema, in 1965. where his mandate was to produce a festival that expanded the form of cinema. He commissioned 30 perfor
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