Beat Angel

Pull My Daisy(en)

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. However, the brakeman's Bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy is a film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.

Big Sur(en)

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

Chicago 10(en)

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 National Convention.

Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri(en)

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.

The Honey Bee(en)

Beat poem parable to black youth.

A Line a Day Must Be Enough!(en)

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 talkative artist gives us a glimpse of his thoughts on art, God, life and death.

Living on the Edge: The Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc(fr)

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of taboo. In so doing, he helped propel Acadia into the modern era.

William S. Burroughs Birthday Bash(en)

To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Humanities Festival brings together a motley crew of poets, writers, and musicians. William Seward Burroughs (1914 - 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs's needs took him across the United States, down into Mexico, to Europe and beyond. On his travels, he meets up with various members of the underground drug and "outcast" cultures.

Black Lodge(en)

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 moment in his life, he mines fractured and repressed memories for a way out. A woman is at the center of all the writer’s afterlife encounters. She is the subject of his life’s greatest regret, and she materializes everywhere in this Otherworld. The writer cannot detach any thoughts of his life from her.

Marcel!(it)

The young girl, an insomniac. The mother, an artist. The dog, named Marcel. The little girl loves her mother immensely, but her mother loves Marcel more than anything else. Will an unpredictable event allow those circles of love to reconnect?

Köyde Bir Kız Sevdim(tr)

I Am Mortal(en)

Set 200 years in the future, a small band of rebels face off against the status quo where humans have achieved immortality through genetic engineering

Blood on the Tracks(en)

Between Me and You(en)

A soon-to-be-bride takes one last night to try something she's always wanted to in Paris, a passionate affair reaches its breaking point in the suburbs of America and two 'friends' finally have a long-postponed conversation about their previous romantic encounter. An anthology of short films from female filmmakers about lesbian and LGBTQIA+ relationships.

Misbehave(th)

A short film for the song 'ทำตัวไม่ถูก' by Chino Atipat.

Naan Mirugamaai Maara(ta)

Bhoomi, a sound engineer who finds his life as a puzzle when his brother is killed by few gangsters in the city. As Bhoomi decides to take revenge, his life as a common man changes entirely and starts affecting his family big time. Can he protect his family members against all odds?

From the Woods(en)

A confrontation with an old rival makes Zack Woods a media sensation hours before leading his underdog team into Game One of March Madness.

Eddie(en)

Eddie is a film about a man’s journey through life and the passion to do what he loves. Sometimes things get in the way, normal everyday things, life’s obstacles, and the struggles that he faces to keep his dreams alive.

Sumathy Valav(ml)

Sumathy Valav is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language dark fantasy film based on the mystery road in Trivandrum . The film was directed by Bernard Joseph . The story concerns ghosts, spirits, and black magic. The film stars Vishnu Narayanan , Gautham K Biju , Vishal , Christy , Sreeraj and Jack . The film was inspired by some true invents of a mysterious road in Trivandrum , Kerala . The DOP of the film is Ajay Raju . The music and background score of the film is done by Abin Ponnachan and the sound design is done by Vidhu Nandan .

The Cycle(en)

CYCLE is a malayalam short film who dreams for buying a cycle to play with his friends. DIRECTOR : DAVIS JOSEPH DOP : ADWAITH V S CREATIEVE DIRECTOR : BERNARD JOSEPH