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 In 1985 artists Leslie Lowe and Jack Waters decided the only way for people to see their films and the films they liked was to self-exhibit (and to show the films too!). With the Lower East Side renegade art space ABC No Rio as home base they showed super8, 16mm and video in galleries, theaters, lofts, salons, nightclubs - wherever you could fit a projector - all over Manhattan, the U.S.A. ... the World. The mixed bag aesthetic was a rare venue where Todd Haynes, Jon Moritsugu, Penelope Wehrli, Christine Vachon, Bradley Eros, Aline Mare, Kembra Pfahler, Carl George, Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Cassandra Stark, and Todd Verow, to name a few, showed side-by-side with classic titles like Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican Study Film, Maya Deren's Meshes In The Afternoon, Monterey Pop, and Grey Gardens. Naked eye was the ONLY venue of its era consistently showing film and video by women, queers and other outcasts. A center of the newest and most challenging spheres in contemporary music, performance and visual art, the spirit of Naked Eye Cinema lives in new and "used" videos that belie genre classification. Let's just say, they're ...different.

Naked Eye Catalogue

Naked eye works are now available at Film Makers Coop.