William Burroughs, Commissioner Of Sewers

William Burroughs, Commissioner Of Sewers

Production country: 
de
Year: 
1991
Duration: 
58'
Edition: 
1992
Format: 
film/video
"William Burroughs, Commissioner Of Sewers" by Klaus Maeck, scan from the VideoFest ‘92 program booklet.

A collage portraying William S. Burroughs, one of the most influential writers of modern writing, that combines excerpts of a lecture in Berlin with early experimental films with Brion Gysin, paintings and interviews. Burroughs talks about language as a means and as a weapon, about his method of cut-ups and fold-ins, about language as a virus, as death and trauma, about journeys into time and space... topping it all by singing a song.

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