Underground film rushes served as currency for intimacy in the scene

Evidence

Rubin seduced Allen Ginsberg, back from India by way of Vancouver and San Francisco, with a private screening of her rushes. Ginsberg was impressed that Rubin had “made an art object out of her vagina.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 489

Categorization

• XREF: The screening-as-courtship dynamic parallels how avant-garde work circulates socially — connects to claims about scenes as markets elsewhere on the shelf.