William S. Burroughs
Birthday: 1914-02-05
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Biography: William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, and five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences; he was initially briefly known by the pen name William Lee. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, made many appearances in films, and created and exhibited thousands of visual artworks, including his celebrated "Shotgun Art". Description above from the Wikipedia article William S. Burroughs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Chappaqua
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure...
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FLicKeR
In 1960, Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce ha...
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as ...
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Take Your Pills
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way t...
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Relics: Einstein's Brain
Documentary about Kenji Sugimoto, professor in Math and Science history at Kinki university in Japan...
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells...
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Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees
Computer programmer/beekeeper Jacob gets a "television" implanted in his brain by a race of telekine...
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Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (19...
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The Final Academy Documents
Documentation of the showcase titled 'The Final Academy', filmed on October 4, 1982 in The Haçienda,...
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Decoder
F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners,...
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September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt...
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Twister
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriar...
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Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversia...
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William Buys a Parrot
A bizarre silent short film showing author William S. Burroughs negotiating to buy a parrot....
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The Junky's Christmas
Burroughs takes down a book and reads us the story of Danny the Carwiper, who spends Christmas Day t...
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Ornette: Made in America
Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman....
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Condo Painting
John McNaughton's spotlight on George Condo and his art. The film, which follows the progress of Con...
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Towers Open Fire
Antony Balch tackles key themes and ideas from the writing of William S. Burroughs in a unique, cine...
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Ghost at No. 9
Experimental artistic film which uses the milieu of experimental art with a background of various ki...
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The Cut-Ups
Essentially a dizzying montage of quirky shots of legendary Beat Generation writer William S. Burrou...
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Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson
A concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, filmed at the Park Theater in...
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The Source
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to th...
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William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers
An hour-long interview with author William S. Burroughs in which he expounds on American culture, ar...
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Thanksgiving Prayer
An indictment ballad of all the different political groups in America....
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Destroy All Rational Thought
The great Beat Generation experiments took place in Tangier, the Moroccan city where William Burroug...
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Coda I + Coda II
Peter Gidal’s starting point for his 16mm film was a soundtrack that consists of three lines from a ...
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Coda I
Peter Gidal’s starting point for his 16mm film was a soundtrack that consists of three lines from a ...
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Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...
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For No Good Reason
For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, sm...
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Wanderlust
A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literat...
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Fix: The Ministry Movie
Provides an insider's view of the groundbreaking, outrageous, creative juggernaut that was the band ...
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Ah Pook Is Here.
A disturbingly organic-looking figure speaks to us of life, politics and death as the symbol of the ...
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The Beat Hotel
The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris...
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Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a uni...
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Underground and Emigrants
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with...
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Burroughs: The Movie
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemp...
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Chelsea Hotel
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York ...
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Pirate Tape
Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 duri...
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Energy and How to Get It
Filmed in Wendover, Nevada, in early 1981, Energy and How to Get It combines documentary and fiction...
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Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
A road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Cultu...
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Witchcraft Through the Ages
A seventy-six-minute version of Häxan, re-edited and re-released in the United States by Metro Pictu...
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Drugstore Cowboy
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wi...
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Thot-Fal'N
This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols)...
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Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs On the Road
A portrait of the American Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) based on never-be...
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William S. Burroughs: The Possessed
Thelema Now! host Frater Puck discusses William S. Burroughs, possession, synchronicities and chaos ...
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Cain's Film
A film about Alexander Trocchi. Scottish born poet, writer, translator and author of "Young Adam" an...
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Nova Express
An exhaustive examination of cut-ups, the control machine, and the algebra of need figure in this ep...
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Don't Blink - Robert Frank
The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're ...
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The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and change...
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Poetry in Motion
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the fi...
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This Song for Jack
In 1982, Robert Frank was on hand at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to film the Jack Ker...
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Heavy Petting
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comed...
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Poem Posters
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, ...
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It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
An ironic New York City thriller involving a mafioso and a restless, witty lawyer....
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The Making of Drugstore Cowboy
Portland, 1988. Filmmaker Gus Van Sant shoots Drugstore Cowboy, the project that will bring he and h...
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Robert E. Fulton III Edit of Burroughs: The Movie
After two years of filming, director Howard Brookner brought inventor and photographer Robert E. Ful...
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Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The fil...
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into a...
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Uncle Howard
When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two featu...
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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music...
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The Book of Life
New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdalena d...
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Chicago
UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A striking documentary shot ci...
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William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
Jon Aes-Nihil's experimental documentary about iconic Beat author William S. Burroughs' experiences ...
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Coda II
Gidal describes the film’s ‘so-called imagery’ as ‘a complex of barely visible cuts in space and tim...
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