The name Abel Ferrara evokes uproar and controversy. Always accompanied by admiration for this filmmaker from The Bronx, NY. Screening of a digital restoration of Not Guilty: For Keith Richards (1977) by Ferrara and Babeth VanLoo, followed by neo-noir sci-fi thriller New Rose Hotel.
Media artist, filmmaker and producer Babeth VanLoo (1948) spent a long time in the US, where during the seventies she studied film and visual art at the San Francisco Art Institute and became involved in the emerging punk scene.
Abel Ferrara was one of the artists and filmmakers she met there. Together with him, (co-direction), in 1977 she made the short experimental film Not Guilty: For Keith Richards (16mm, 3'). Ferrara plays Rolling Stone Keith Richards, who had been arrested on drug…
