Allen Ginsberg

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid ’60s, is told through interviews recorded in the ...

The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an ...

The story focuses on Newark’s Baraka family and its involvement in social activism, poetry, music, art and politics.

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan ...

Documentary about western popular music concerts as bearer tendencies of democracy and freedom in the Czechoslovak area in period 1965 – ...

A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary ...

CRAZY WISDOM explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chögyam Trungpa, who landed in the U.S. in 1970. Trungpa ...

The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world’s living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, ...

Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur ...

A collection of rare outtakes and performances from Pennebaker’s 1965 documentary Don’t Look Back.

The Old, Weird America tracks the history of the Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial compilation of 78 records from rural Americana ...

With Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Ray Bremser, Le Roi Jones, Peter Orlovsky, this film takes place in the Living Theater, 1958.

This was filmed on October 9, 1972 in Syracuse, N.Y., on John Lennon’s Birthday; during Lennon/Yoko Ono concert at Madison Square Garden, ...

A chronicle of Bob Dylan’s strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to “voice of a ...

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 ...

A documentary about the brilliant and versatile cult figure Harry Smith (1923-1991) – compiler of a famous three-part folk album, film-maker, ...

New York in the Fifties is the story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expressions, free love, drinking, ...

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas ...

John McNaughton’s spotlight on George Condo and his art. The film, which follows the progress of Condo’s large-scale oil painting Big ...

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 ...

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac’s meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. ...

Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative ...

A close-up of Allen Ginsberg reciting his “skeletons” poem is bluescreened and dissolved against archival film and video clips, and backed by ...

On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono’s art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at ...

This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg’s apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of ...

Documentary about U2’s album Pop and following tour.

Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag’s fascinating documentary follows Hungarian poet, playwright and activist István Eörsi on a trip to the streets of ...

A party hosted by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg inspired the director’s award-winning graduation film Van Gogh’s Ear, an experimental ...

Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political ...

Members of the controversial group NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) discuss why their organization supports “boys and men ...