BÚSQUEDA
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in...
Chappaqua
In 1960, Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations, drugless highs, and revolutionize...
FLicKeR
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?
Take Your Pills
Documentary about Kenji Sugimoto, professor in Math and Science history at Kinki university in Japan. He has spent the last 30 years publishing works...
Relics: Einstein's Brain
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that...
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Computer programmer/beekeeper Jacob gets a "television" implanted in his brain by a race of telekinetic bees, which causes him to experience severe...
Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees
One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) is profiled by a filmmaker who has been...
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
Documentation of the showcase titled 'The Final Academy', filmed on October 4, 1982 in The Haçienda, Manchester. Video 1 features the movies...
The Final Academy Documents
F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local...
Decoder
Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He...
Twister
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Naked Lunch"...
Obscene
A bizarre silent short film showing author William S. Burroughs negotiating to buy a parrot.
William Buys a Parrot
Burroughs takes down a book and reads us the story of Danny the Carwiper, who spends Christmas Day trying to score a fix, but finds the Christmas...
The Junky's Christmas
Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.
Ornette: Made in America
A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
Glitterbug
John McNaughton's spotlight on George Condo and his art. The film, which follows the progress of Condo's large-scale oil painting Big Red over the...
Condo Painting
Experimental film by William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch
Bill and Tony
Antony Balch tackles key themes and ideas from the writing of William S. Burroughs in a unique, cinematic style.
Towers Open Fire
Experimental artistic film which uses the milieu of experimental art with a background of various kinds of sounds and music. (worldcat.org)...
Ghost at No. 9
Essentially a dizzying montage of quirky shots of legendary Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs and noted surrealist artist Brion Gysin, this...
The Cut-Ups
A concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey, during the summer of...
Home of the Brave
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in...
The Source
An hour-long interview with author William S. Burroughs in which he expounds on American culture, art and morals.
William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers
An indictment ballad of all the different political groups in America.
Thanksgiving Prayer
The great Beat Generation experiments took place in Tangier, the Moroccan city where William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and the Moroccan painter Hamri...
Destroy All Rational Thought
Peter Gidal’s starting point for his 16mm film was a soundtrack that consists of three lines from a 1,000 word story written by Gidal in 1971,...
Coda I + Coda II
Coda I
A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.
Naked Making Lunch
A documentary epic on magical healing in the Himalayas.
Shamans of the Blind Country
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City....
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly...
For No Good Reason
A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd...
Wanderlust
Provides an insider's view of the groundbreaking, outrageous, creative juggernaut that was the band Ministry - during their world tour - as front man...
Fix: The Ministry Movie
A disturbingly organic-looking figure speaks to us of life, politics and death as the symbol of the common man toils away. Written and narrated by...
Ah Pook Is Here.
The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963,...
The Beat Hotel
We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears...
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts...
Underground and Emigrants
An abstract exploration of the number 10.
Pantelia
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion...
Burroughs: The Movie
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy...
Chelsea Hotel
Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the...
Pirate Tape
Filmed in Wendover, Nevada, in early 1981, Energy and How to Get It combines documentary and fictional ideas. What began as a documentary film about...
Energy and How to Get It
A road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Culture Meeting that took place in 1975 in Montreal....
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
A seventy-six-minute version of Häxan, re-edited and re-released in the United States by Metro Pictures Corporation in 1968. It is narrated by...
Witchcraft Through the Ages
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine,...
Drugstore Cowboy
This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and...
Thot-Fal'N
A portrait of the American Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) based on never-before-seen footage from his visit to Denmark in...
Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs On the Road
Thelema Now! host Frater Puck discusses William S. Burroughs, possession, synchronicities and chaos magick
William S. Burroughs: The Possessed
A film about Alexander Trocchi. Scottish born poet, writer, translator and author of "Young Adam" and "Cain's Book". Part of the film was made at the...
Cain's Film
An exhaustive examination of cut-ups, the control machine, and the algebra of need figure in this epic found-footage adaptation of Burroughs’s...
Nova Express
The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount...
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA...
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of...
Poetry in Motion
In 1982, Robert Frank was on hand at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to film the Jack Kerouac Conference, a 25th-anniversary commemoration...
This Song for Jack
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie...
Heavy Petting
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...
Poem Posters
An ironic New York City thriller involving a mafioso and a restless, witty lawyer.
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
Portland, 1988. Filmmaker Gus Van Sant shoots Drugstore Cowboy, the project that will bring he and his collaborators a formidable burst of mainstream...
The Making of Drugstore Cowboy
After two years of filming, director Howard Brookner brought inventor and photographer Robert E. Fulton III a trunkful of William S. Burroughs...
Robert E. Fulton III Edit of Burroughs: The Movie
Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility...
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two feature documentaries and was in post-production on...
Uncle Howard
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdalena discuss and debate the End of the World.
The Book of Life
UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A striking documentary shot cinema verite style of the 1968 Democratic National...
Chicago
Jon Aes-Nihil's experimental documentary about iconic Beat author William S. Burroughs' experiences using a stroboscopic device, known as the dream...
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine