Allen Ginsberg Movie Trailers
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Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues Trailer (2006)
01 November 2006
This was taped in March 1990 at my 491 Broadway place. It is with Allen Ginsberg, Gozo Yashimasu, Leo Adams, others.
No. 18: Mahagonny Trailer (1980)
13 September 1980
Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1929) for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus.
Heavy Petting Trailer (1989)
22 September 1989
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg-- recall their earliest sexual experiences.
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
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 Obscenity Codes.
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office Trailer (2025)
31 January 2025
The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication.
Chicago Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A striking documentary shot cinema verite style of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with contrasting film and audio inside the convention center and the protests outside.
Couch Trailer (1964)
01 July 1964
The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch.
Take Your Pills Trailer (2018)
09 March 2018
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better.
Happy Birthday to John Trailer (1997)
09 October 1997
On October 9, 1972, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse hosted an exhibition of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s work, designed by Fluxus artist George Maciunas.
Wholly Communion Trailer (1965)
31 December 1965
A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry.
Galaxie Trailer (1966)
03 September 1966
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W.
Johnny Minotaur Trailer (1971)
07 April 1971
Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism are a few of the issues Charles Henri Ford grapples with through mythopoeic, sensual imagery, recitations of his diaries and a philosophical debate featuring an impressive narration by such artists as Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Warren Sonbert and Lynne Tillman.
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family Trailer (1971)
11 April 1971
The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories.
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan Trailer (2005)
21 July 2005
A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
Van Gogh's Ear Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
A party hosted by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg inspired the director's award-winning graduation film Van Gogh's Ear, an experimental short featuring the maestro talking about his creations, death and immortality.
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles Trailer (1999)
01 April 1999
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 been obsessed with his genius since age nineteen.
Dylan Speaks Trailer (1965)
03 December 1965
The legendary press conference in San Fransisco at KQED studios on Dec. 3rd 1965. This was a pivotal year in Bob Dylan's career.
On the Road to Desolation Trailer (1997)
11 October 1997
Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a fire-watcher on Washington state's Desolation Peak.
Joan of Arc Trailer (1967)
10 January 1967
The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam.
Pull My Daisy Trailer (1959)
11 November 1959
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 wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner.
We Can't Go Home Again Trailer (1973)
10 May 1973
Nicholas Ray plays himself, acting as mentor, friend, and artistic inspiration to his students at Binghamton.
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration Trailer (1977)
09 July 1977
A tribute concert honoring the life of legendary folksinger Phil Ochs recorded at the Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in 1976.
Don't Blink - Robert Frank Trailer (2015)
19 November 2015
The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount of territory he's covered, from The Americans in 1958 up to the present, is intimately registered in his now-formidable body of artistic gestures.
A Poet from the Lower East Side Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag's fascinating documentary follows Hungarian poet, playwright and activist István Eörsi on a trip to the streets of New York to visit his friend and contemporary, the iconic beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
Renaldo and Clara Trailer (1978)
25 January 1978
Filmed in the autumn of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour – featuring appearances and performances by Ronee Blakley, T-Bone Burnett, Jack Elliott, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Hawkins, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Arlen Roth, Phil Ochs, Sam Shepard, and Harry Dean Stanton – the film incorporates three distinct film genres: concert footage, documentary interviews, and dramatic fictional vignettes reflective of Dylan's song lyrics and life.
Lake Placid '80 Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games.
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC Trailer (2026)
10 April 2026
John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory and Special Guests performed these now-legendary sold-out One To One concerts to a combined audience of 40,000 people, raising over $1.
Underground New York Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever.
A Supermarket in California Trailer (2024)
25 July 2024
Carved to the beat verses of Allen Ginsberg and his eponymous poem, A Supermarket in California paints the most surreal contours of an America watched, dreamed, filtered through the eyes of a poet who meets Walt Whitman in a supermarket and pines for a world that may not exist.
Thot-Fal'N Trailer (1978)
27 June 1978
This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and then that feeling of falling away from conscious thought.
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel Trailer (2017)
01 December 2017
The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, which he had salvaged from his own archive for Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel.
This Song for Jack Trailer (1983)
01 October 1983
In 1982, Robert Frank was on hand at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to film the Jack Kerouac Conference, a 25th-anniversary commemoration of On the Road in which poignantly aging Beats and fellow-traveling authors, activists, and composers (Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Herbert Huncke, Anne Waldman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ken Kesey, Abbie Hoffman, David Amram) gathered on a rain-swept Chautauqua porch to recite poetry and raise a glass to their patron saint.
65 Revisited Trailer (2007)
28 November 2007
A collection of rare outtakes and performances from Pennebaker's 1965 documentary Don't Look Back.
To John With Love Trailer (2006)
01 November 2006
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, August 30, 1972; and December 8, 1980, Central Park, New York.
American Magus Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
A documentary about the brilliant and versatile cult figure Harry Smith (1923-1991) – compiler of a famous three-part folk album, film-maker, painter, anthropologist, obsessive collector and thinker.
Road Scholar Trailer (1993)
16 July 1993
Andrei Cordescu, NPR journalist, Romanian immigrant, naturalized American citizen, and newly-licensed driver, sets out on a cross- country road trip.
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography and filmmaking.
Greetings from Washington, D.C. Trailer (1981)
16 October 1981
A short documentary about the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which took place on Sunday, October 14th 1979.
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
The influence of Jewish fathers on their sons and the complexity of familial relationships are explored in a witty, poignant portrait of two artists.
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out Trailer (1967)
16 July 1967
5 psychedelic short films, broadcast on the French/German tv channel "arte" on 2007-07-16 "Be-In" USA 1967, 7 min "Beatles Electronique" USA 1966-69, 3 min "San Francisco" Great Britain 1967/68, 15 min.
Ballad of the Skeletons Trailer (1997)
20 November 1997
A close-up of Allen Ginsberg reciting his “skeletons” poem is bluescreened and dissolved against archival film and video clips, and backed by musicians to create a sort of song that becomes an American anthem.
Chappaqua Trailer (1966)
30 August 1966
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure.
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Trailer (2010)
05 November 2010
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
Norman Mailer: The American Trailer (2012)
18 May 2012
A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about.
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Trailer (2011)
25 November 2011
CRAZY WISDOM explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chögyam Trungpa, who landed in the U.
ALLEN & AI Trailer (2026)
20 June 2026
June 3, 1990. New York City. On his 64th birthday, Allen Ginsberg gathers a handful of friends in his downtown apartment.
Burroughs: The Movie Trailer (1984)
10 February 1984
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, and William Burroughs Jr.
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center Trailer (1989)
31 December 1989
Izzy Young was the guru of American folk music. In this documentary covering his legendary Folklore Center in New York Izzy meets with friends and collaborators like Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg, The Fugs, Mayor Ed Koch to reminisce.
Great Poets: In Their Own Words Trailer (2014)
10 August 2014
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen Trailer (1985)
01 February 1985
An ironic New York City thriller involving a mafioso and a restless, witty lawyer.
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Longtime friends and frequent foils, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appeared onstage together countless times over the years, reading to audiences that sometimes numbered in the hundreds or thousands.
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine Trailer (2015)
14 April 2015
Jon Aes-Nihil's experimental documentary about iconic Beat author William S. Burroughs' experiences using a stroboscopic device, known as the dream machine, which simulates the electric pulses of the human brain to elicit hallucinations and dream-like imagery while the user's eyes are closed.
Autumn Ritual Trailer (1986)
01 September 1986
Artists, Philosophers, Musicians, Politicians and more offer their thoughts on Pro Football, in this 1986 film produced by NFL Films.
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others.
Global Groove Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw the potential in the television beyond it being a one-sided medium to present programs and commercials.
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg Trailer (1994)
17 February 1994
Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher.
Beat Generation Trailer (2014)
08 February 2014
Tells the story of the wonderful and long-lasting friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs that gave birth to the Beat Generation movement.
A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985 Trailer (2018)
26 March 2018
A film by Alan Steinfeld depicting the experience of living in the East Village in the 1980s. Featured and exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art's Club 57 retrospective.