Where to Watch Participation (1971)

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Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'Participation' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'Participation' right now, here are some details about the documentary flick.

Participation starring Jimi Hendrix, Ian Anderson has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 5 min, and a scheduled release date of January 1st, 1971.

Want the short version of the plot? Here's the plot: "This period compilation of documentaries shot with a Portapak camera from the early era of video experimentation offers an immediate view of the independent New York art scene (concerts and theater perfomances on the streets and in the clubs of downtown). It is a sort of summary of Steina and Woody Vasulka's first creative period, a period of fascination with the more bizarre aspects of "new American decadence". Thanks to the video camera and its revolutionary implications, the creators were able to penetrate into spheres where the documentarians of more classical media were neither allowed nor interested to enter, thereby helping to expand the ideas of documentary possibilities. Steina has remarked that she learned the craft of camerawork as documentarian thanks to these celebratory, countercultural scenes of the "sexual avant-garde"-- Participation also features a pulsing light show projection at the Fillmore East, and a scene from Off-Broadway drag theater." .