The Clark screens three films inspired by the public spaces installation David-Jeremiah: I Drive Thee. Like David-Jeremiah’s work, the films are meditations on performance, drive, and specific ideas of masculinity. They are also watershed moments in film history—moments of technical virtuosity and revolutionary performances—during massive changes in the film industry.

The series concludes with Easy Rider (1969), the definitive road movie and counterculture blockbuster. The down-and-dirty directorial debut of Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider heralded the arrival of a new era in film, an era of independent filmmaking pitched angrily against the mainstream. After the film’s cross-country journey—with its radical, New Wave–style editing, outsider-rock soundtrack, revelatory performance by a young Jack Nicholson, and explosive ending—the American road trip was never the same. (Run time: 1 hour, 36 minutes)

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.



Image: Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper, 1969