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.

Beat poem parable to black youth.

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.

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...

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

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

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...

Ralph suffers from burnout. And is a reptiloid. A film crew portrays the once successful businessman in his cluttered apartment and investigates the q...

Maria (40) strives to balance parenthood and a demanding career while her second husband, Sigmund, frequently travels for work. As the strain of compe...

Fleeing her violent husband, a mother seeks refuge at a Women's Shelter with her teenage son leading to complications and ending in violence.

A disgruntled ex-soldier has tracked down his war-weary Confederate Captain from the Civil War, vengeful for his fallen comrades' deaths. What they do...

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousin...