What the Fuck Are These Red Squares? Film Project elements
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- What the Fuck Are These Red Squares? Film Project elements
- Identifier
- BMRC.KART.REDSQ
- Repository
- Kartemquin Films
- Language
- English
- Size
- 2.0 Linear feet
- Dates
- 1969-1970
- Creator
- Kartemquin Films
Acknowledgements and Access
This collection was part of the BMRC Survey Initiative, 2009-2011. For current information about the collection and its status, please contact Kartemquin Films at info@kartemquin.com
Historical note
What the Fuck Are These Red Squares? is a 15-minute 1970 film by Gordon Quinn and Jerry and Shirlee Blumenthal. Striking students meet at a ""Revolutionary Seminar"" at the Art Institute of Chicago in response to the invasion of Cambodia and the killing of protesting students at Kent and Jackson State Universities. They explore their role as artists in a capitalist society and issue questions like: What are the implications of the artist's elitist position in America? Is it possible not to be co-opted, as ""radical"" as one's art may be? What are the connections between money and art in America, between the ""New York Scene"" and the rest of the country?
Scope and Contents note
The What the Fuck Are These Red Squares? Film records include 16 film prints, work prints, negative, trims, and outs.
Processing Information note
This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2011 March 21 by Andrew Steadham.