Plague Summer | Pull My Daisy | Have You Sold Your Dozen Roses
Join us for this season’s final installment of Films With Friends, presented by Those Guys. The Beat Museum will be screening three films:
Plague Summer (1953)
Chester Kessler based on The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen, 16 min.
Disturbing animation film by Chester Kessler one of Kenneth Anger’s cinematographers. Kenneth Patchen sets off on an allegorical journey to the furthest limits of love and murder, madness and sex. While on this disordered pilgrimage to H. Roivas (Heavenly Savior), various characters offer deranged responses, conveying an otherworldly, imaginative madness. A chronicle of violent fury and compassion, written when Surrealism was still vigorous and doing battle with psychotic “reality,” The Journal of Albion Moonlight is an American monument to engagement.
Pull My Daisy (1959)
Robert Frank/Alfred Leslie, 30 min.
A short film directed and shot by Robert Frank, adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation.
Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It features Poets Allen Ginsbery, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Alice Neel and musician David Amram and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank’s son.
Have You Sold Your Dozen Roses (1958)
Directed by Philip Greene, Allen Willis, ~10min.
A portrait of San Francisco’s dump in the late 50s with an electric and moving poem by San Francisco’s own Lawrence Ferlinghetti