The connection

Duration: 103 mi

Year Published: 1961

Creator: New Yorker

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Clarke's improvisational film centers on eight drug addicts who have gathered in a Greenwich Village loft to await their connection. To pay for their drugs, they have allowed a would-be documentary filmmaker to photograph them. The film-within-a-film records the junkies rapping, jiving, taunting the camera and offering an impromptu jam session.

Complete Record: Clarke's improvisational film centers on eight drug addicts who have gathered in a Greenwich Village loft to await their connection. To pay for their drugs, they have allowed a would-be documentary filmmaker to photograph them. The film-within-a-film records the junkies rapping, jiving, taunting the camera and offering an impromptu jam session.


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