This Song for Jack

10/01/1983

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0hr 0min

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Documentary

STORY

In 1982, Robert Frank was on hand at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to film the Jack Kerouac Conference, a 25th-anniversary commemoration of On the Road in which poignantly aging Beats and fellow-traveling authors, activists, and composers (Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Herbert Huncke, Anne Waldman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ken Kesey, Abbie Hoffman, David Amram) gathered on a rain-swept Chautauqua porch to recite poetry and raise a glass to their patron saint. Particularly memorable is Frank’s humorous encounter with a group of grizzled and well-lubricated onlookers. — Museum of Modern Art

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • William S. Burroughs
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • John Clellon Holmes
  • Gregory Corso
  • Peter Orlovsky

    Director

  • Robert Frank

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English