Scene infrastructure failures in one city drove avant-garde organizers to another

Evidence

Frustrated by what she regarded as British provincialism (among other things she was shut out of the London Film-Makers’ Cooperative that she had promoted the previous summer), Rubin’s proposals were met with a general lack of interest. Letters to Mekas mention little more than a half-baked happening arranged for Italian TV and featuring Piero Heliczer, and an abortive trip to visit Fellini in Rome. In late 1966, she returned to New York and the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque, where, a year after the triumph of Andy Warhol, Uptight, she organized an ambitious multimedia event, Caterpillar Changes, announced with a striking butterfly-shaped poster and a press release promising NEW YORK’S FIRST UNITED ACIDHEADSPEED RELIEF FUN BALL & GLITTER PARADE. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 962