Event

Radio Unnameable

Nov 30 - Dec 06

(Paul Lovelace and Jessica Wolfson, USA, 2012, 87 min)

Friday, Nov 30 at 07:00PM
Friday, Nov 30 at 09:00PM
Saturday, Dec 01 at 07:00PM
Saturday, Dec 01 at 09:00PM
Sunday, Dec 02 at 07:00PM
Sunday, Dec 02 at 09:00PM
Monday, Dec 03 at 07:00PM
Monday, Dec 03 at 09:00PM
Tuesday, Dec 04 at 07:00PM
Tuesday, Dec 04 at 09:00PM
Wednesday, Dec 05 at 07:00PM
Wednesday, Dec 05 at 09:00PM
Thursday, Dec 06 at 07:00PM

Known as the father of "freeform" radio, DJ Bob Fass hosted Radio Unnamable in the 1960s, creating a show whose format mixed town hall forum and party. Broadcast on New York's WBAI, one of the nation's first listener-sponsored non-commercial radio stations, Fass transformed mass media into mass movement. Whether raising bail money for draft dodgers, organizing neighborhood clean-ups, or gathering supporters for protests, Fass didn't simply report the news: he connected his community.

"a celebration of the broadcast medium, and a movie that approaches the'60s counterculture from a fresh angle. Fass was at his height both baby-sitter and rabble-rouser. He used the airwaves to construct a community a clubhouse for the New Left's greatest showboats: Paul Krassner and Abbie Hoffman an evocative collagea time capsule. Fass was in a sense New York's quintessential (East) Village voice the great ongoing commentator on unbelievable oddness of boho life in Mayor Lindsay's 'fun city.'" J. Hoberman, Artinfo