Narcotics agents raided artist studios under drug pretext and destroyed film work

Evidence

Ed Sanders’s name had been on the LEMAR press release. In the nights that followed, his “secret” studio was twice broken into and ransacked by the narcotic agents, who, looking for drugs, instead confiscated the entirety of his film footage, including two lengthy works in progress, Amphetamine Head and the orgiastic Mongolian Cluster Fuck. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 746

Categorization

• SEED: An angle on police overreach destroying avant-garde cultural artifacts as collateral of drug enforcement — evidence for the material hazards that shaped downtown filmmakers in the mid-60s.