This film, produced in 1959, presents several influential creative talents of the ‘beat generation’, who play roles in Jack Kerouac’s play of that name. The soundtrack is Kerouac’s description of what he saw when he filmed: he invents the words and thoughts of the characters.
Also in this combined programme
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Flaming Creatures
One of the most famous and notorious underground films from American film history: a decadent, exotic and exuberant feast. -
Sirius Remembered
Sweeping camera movements by avant-garde film master Brakhage around a dead dog. -
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Anamnesis
A master does not need any proof of skill. Not even any finger exercises. He makes masterful exercises in a cinematographic idiom that he invented… -
Lune
Atmospheric study of faces, motions and the character of (photographic) light.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1959
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
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