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from Mark Wojahn, hosting in Minneapolis, MN:
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FLicKeR:
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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 Gison’s complex ideas, friendships and influence with some of the 20th century’s key counterculture figures, such as William Burroughs, Kurt Corbain 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. We require a $5-10 sliding scale admission; those proceeds are split 50/50 with the exhibitor. We also can easily structure deals so that you make money yourselves on DVD sales. From the filmmaker: Official website | Trailer | Buy the DVD | Hosting materials Tags: FLicKeR, brion gysin, dream machine, dreammachine, iggy pop, kurt cobain, counterculture No screenings of FLicKeR are currently scheduled. Host one yourself!
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