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ubu, king again 
10.07.2005, 1:21 AM
posted by ben vershbow
It's nice to see that UbuWeb, the great public web library of the avant garde, is back online after "a long summer of rebuilding." At times when the web feels depressingly shallow, Ubu can be the perfect medecine. Among the many masterworks you will find is Samuel Beckett's "Film" (1965), starring a very old Buster Keaton. It's wonderful that anyone can watch this online (I've just spent half an hour in its thrall).
Also worth checking out are /ubu Editions - handsomely designed electronic texts ranging across an interesting selection of poetry, prose and theatre, including Ron Silliman's "The Chinese Notebook," which Dan blogged about a couple weeks back. These, like everything else on Ubu, are free.
Posted by ben vershbow on October 7, 2005 01:21 AM
tags: Libraries, Search and the Web, Online, avant_garde, avantgarde, beckett, buster_keaton, curated, ebook, experimental, fiction, film, gallery, internet, keaton, library, media, museum, music, poetry, samuel_beckett, silliman, theatre, ubu, ubuweb, web
comments (1):
alex itin on October 8, 2005 02:12 AM:Always wanted to see that film... sounds like a great resource. Thanks.
