The Innerview + ScreenTalk & Book Launch Event with archivist Ross Lipman and film scholar Elena Gorfinkel
Thu 3 Jul 2025, 18:20, Barbican Cinema 3

A newly restored screening of Richard Beymer’s trippy 1960s lost film, followed by a ScreenTalk and book launch event for Ross Lipman's latest work: The Archival Impermanence Project.

In a beat-generation-esque tale of a young kid from Iowa trying to find his feet in big, bad Hollywood, The Innerview explores the dark underbelly of society and 60s psychedelic/psychological culture.

This rare screening of Richard Beymer’s 1975 long-lost psychedelic film newly restored after decades in obscurity. Known for West Side Story and Twin Peaks, Beymer left Hollywood in the '60s to pursue bold, experimental filmmaking.

The Innerview, blends surreal visuals, sound, and performance in a dreamlike meditation on creativity and consciousness. Lost for years due to constant re-editing, this 1975 version, restored with Northeast Historic Film and the NFPF, is the only surviving cut.

Ross Lipman's book The Archival Impermanence Project: Film Restoration Poetics, Case Studies, and Histories, will be available for purchase at the screening.