Summer Film Series: Beats on Film

Thursday, June 14 at 8pm

The Cut-Ups is a refreshing and radical film that adopts William S. Burroughs’ reality-altering, Beat writing method to film. Implementing his technique of cut-ups, the work was edited mathematically in order to erase the idea of the author, and to allow the “Third Mind” to become the force behind the narrative; the result is both maddening and hynotic.

Christopher MacLaine’s legendary film The End portrays five different people on the last day of their lives. A poetic, philosophical examination of life and its unexpected end, this film draws comparisons between the dehumanizing effects of mass culture and personal despair, as we all await “the grand suicide of the human race.”