Christmas on Earth

Christmas on Earth (1963)

For all intents and purposes, "Christmas on Earth" is a performance art film about genital worshipping. At 29 minutes, Barbara Rubin has created the ultimate study on the celebratory and erotic nature of free-love. The film is tinted in various colors, hence the title, and finds various individuals engaging in sexual activity. Men with women, men with men, women with women, and several orgies throughout.

Date of release
1963-12-25
TMDB
4.2 / 10 (17)
Runtime
29m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Barbara Rubin

Interesting facts

Christmas on Earth is a 1963 American experimental short film directed by Barbara Rubin.

Production

Rubin, only 18 when she began filming in 1963, shot the film using a borrowed 16mm Bolex camera, in New York City, in the Ludlow Street apartment of John Cale and Tony Conrad. The 29-minute film was inspired by Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures, over which Rubin clashed with censors alongside Jonas Mekas and P. Adams Sitney.

so I spent 3 months chopping the hours of film up into a basket and then toss and toss, flip and toss and one by one Absently enchantedly Destined to splice it together and separate on to two different reels and then project one reel half the size inside the other reel full screen size.

She worked with Criterion Film Labs in Midtown Manhattan, which was willing to develop the rolls.

The title derives from Arthur Rimbaud's "Morning" from the extended poem A Season in Hell:

When will we go, over mountains and shores, to hail the birth of new labor, new wisdom, the flight of tyrants and demons, the end of superstition, – to be the first to adore! – Christmas on earth!

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