Alexander Trocchi

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• Movie10.0

  Documentary

  A film about Alexander Trocchi. Scottish born poet, writer, translator and author of "Young Adam" and "Cain's Book". Part of the film was made at the old Arts Laboratory and includes a discussion with William Burroughs. A portrait of Alexander Trocchi, covering his history as a writer, his interest in drugs, his family life, and ‘Sigma’, the organisation he founded to bring together like-minded people.

  Cain's Film

  1969 · 1 votes

• Movie6.3

  Documentary

  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. It came to be seen as one of the cultural high points of the Swinging Sixties.

  Wholly Communion

  1965 · 10 votes

• Movie6.5

  Science Fiction

  Antony Balch tackles key themes and ideas from the writing of William S. Burroughs in a unique, cinematic style.

  Towers Open Fire

  1963 · 13 votes