COLAB, X Motion Picture Magazine, February 1978
$200
X Motion Picture Magazine
X Motion Picture Magazine, February 1978, a Colab publication assembled by the X Collective and coordinated by Jimmy de Sana, Colen Fitzgibbon, Lindzee Smith, and Betsy Sussler. Offset on newsprint paper; cover image selected by Michael McClard, 11 ½ x 14 inches, 60 pages.
Cover
Two pages of a four-page spread by Liza Bear and Keith Sonnier about the Send/Recieve Satellite Network
Left: Lindzee Smith, Robert Cooney and Tim Burns discuss the film Why Cars
Right: Eric Mitchell
Left: Last page of a 5-page Rosa von Prauheim interview with Lindzee Smith
Right: Andy Warhol & Victor Hugo photographed by Jimmy De Sana
Left: Charlie Ahearn
Right: Beth B
The newly formed artist group Collaborative Project Inc. (Colab) was an important part of the independent film scene. At meetings and parties, aspiring filmmakers met and pooled resources; many contributed pages to the Colab publication X Motion Picture Magazine; funds from Colab helped launch the New Cinema, a short-lived screening room on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village; and Colab helped finance the Monday Wednesday Friday Video Club that helped distribute the films in the late 1980s and 1990s.