Allen Ginsberg

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 ...

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

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

HEAVY PETTING is a hilarious and salacious exploration of the sexual mores of the 50’s as seen through the eyes of a generation that lived ...

Archival footage and interviews with historians mark this fascinating documentary on the 1950s, based on David Halberstam’s bestseller. ...

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 ...

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

The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan’s theories. It combines interview with famous ...

Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism are a few of the issues ...

Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private ...

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

AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.

This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to ...

A documentary about militant student political activity at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s.

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 ...

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

It’s San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven ...