BAMPFA welcomes J. Hoberman to discuss his book Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop. He will also present a program of films that is representative of the cross-pollination of poetry, painting, film, music, and performance the book chronicles. The program features Ken Jacobs’s Little Stabs at Happiness, with performer/filmmaker Jack Smith; Ray Wisniewski’s documentation of Boris Lurie, Stanley Fischer, and Sam Goodman’s The Doom Show; Michael Snow’s film of the meanderings of his Walking Woman cutout sculpture, with portraits of, and a soundtrack by, Free Jazz greats Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Sonny Murray, Gary Peacock, Roswell Rudd, and John Tchicai; and Jonas Mekas’s Award Presentation to Andy Warhol.

A book signing will take place after the program.