Allen Ginsberg's final interview, filmed by a legendary underground icon, is pure poetic death.
Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary featuring Allan Ginsburg's final television interview as well as remarkable deathbed footage shot by underground cinema icon Jonas Mekas.
Direction
Jonas Mekas's handheld deathbed footage: cinema as prayer.
Production
Steve Allen's archival footage bridges Beat to mainstream.
Director
Colin Still
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mekas and Ginsberg were collaborators since the 1960s; this footage completes their 30-year creative conversation.
Steve Allen—yes, the Tonight Show guy—was an unlikely Beat champion who financed early Kerouac recordings.
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