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Directed by Nik Sheehan. This award-winning documentary about poet, artist, calligrapher and mystic Brion Gysin, portrays the life and legacy of an artist who believed art could revolutionize human consciousness. FLicKeR chronicles Gysin's complex ideas, friendships and influence with some of the 20th century's key counterculture figures, such as William Burroughs, Kurt Cobain and Marianne Faithful. Gysin was fascinated by identity. He saw himself as incarnating the 10th-century King of Assassins, trained in counter-espionage during WWII, and wrote and rewrote his name in countless permutations, as if to make it disappear -- in the process, inventing the cut-up technique that his lifelong friend, Beat novelist Burroughs, would make famous. Featuring greats like Burroughs (in archival footage), singer Marianne Faithfull, singer/artist Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV, poet John Giorno, punk rocker Iggy Pop, filmmaker Kenneth Anger and artist/turntablist DJ Spooky, FLicKeR is a hypnotic documentary.
75 minutes, NTSC Region 0, aspect ratio: 16:9, production year: 2008.
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William S. Burroughs, Marianne Faithful, Genesis P-Orridge, John Giorno, Iggy Pop, Kenneth Anger, DJ Spooky |
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