When Nelson Sullivan, New York’s extraordinary chronicler of the downtown scene in the 1980s, died suddenly in 1989, his extensive trove of footage fell into the care of Robert Coddington, who’s been assembling and editing it as Sullivan might have himself – and certainly meant to. Coddington heads up the Nelson Sullivan Restoration Project, and from December 9th to March 19th some of his latest Sullivan footage will be shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in its retrospective of the creative East Village. Sullivan’s footage is also on WOW’s Party Monster documentary DVD, in the Nelson Sullivan’s New York extra. In this clip from Robert Coddington’s Legends of New York, Nelson shoots actress Sylvia Miles, James St. James, actress Lisa Edelstein, and the incomparable Christina, made immortal by Marilyn Manson in Party Monster, the movie. (Watch the clip)The (Guest) Basement Tapes
When Nelson Sullivan, New York’s extraordinary chronicler of the downtown scene in the 1980s, died suddenly in 1989, his extensive trove of footage fell into the care of Robert Coddington, who’s been assembling and editing it as Sullivan might have himself – and certainly meant to. Coddington heads up the Nelson Sullivan Restoration Project, and from December 9th to March 19th some of his latest Sullivan footage will be shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in its retrospective of the creative East Village. Sullivan’s footage is also on WOW’s Party Monster documentary DVD, in the Nelson Sullivan’s New York extra. In this clip from Robert Coddington’s Legends of New York, Nelson shoots actress Sylvia Miles, James St. James, actress Lisa Edelstein, and the incomparable Christina, made immortal by Marilyn Manson in Party Monster, the movie. (Watch the clip)
