Beat Angel

Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wif...

Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic Natio...

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

Beat poem parable to black youth.

In a film bursting with lyrics, pictures, and music the director shows us a way into the peculiar universe of Tóroddur, and the otherwise not very tal...

To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Humanities Festival brings together a motley crew of...

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of taboo. In...

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest...

Katerina and Alkis live with Grandpa. Their parents have gone to Alaska to seek their fortune. When Grandpa falls and does not get up, things become d...

As Sonia walks home from a social dinner, a young man returns her purse after it is snatched by a thief. With her knee injured in the robbery, the cha...

Mother and Son attend the exhumation of Husband/Father. The painful process holds an unexpected surprise.

A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening acrobat...

While awaiting the results of his mother’s visa renewal request, a teenage boy living in Texas is confronted by memories he left behind in Uganda.

Who are the people who clean the roads of the world? Why are the majority of them women and immigrants? The well-traveled show “Clean City” of the Ona...