By J. Hoberman

She made the landmark underground film “Christmas on Earth,” and helped bring together artists like Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan.

For a few years in the 1960s, a teenage filmmaker from Queens named Barbara Rubin helped jolt Manhattan’s underground art scene by pulling poets, painters, rock bands and experimental filmmakers into the same rooms.

She had just turned 18 when she joined the filmmaker and critic Jonas Mekas in championing experimental movies. She also made one of her own, “Christmas on Earth,” a roughly 30-minute, black-and-white, 16-millimeter collage of naked bodies and overlapping images that became a touchstone of the New York avant-garde.

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