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Alexander Trocchi

Alexander Trocchi

1925-07-30
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Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Glasgow, Scotland, UK


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Towers Open Fire 1963 (6.7)

Antony Balch tackles key themes and ideas from the writing of William S. Burroughs in a unique, cinematic style.


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Wholly Communion 1965 (6.1)

A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry. It came to be seen as one of the cultural high points of the Swinging Sixties.


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Cain's Film 1969

A film about Alexander Trocchi. Scottish born poet, writer, translator and author of "Young Adam" and "Cain's Book". Part of the film was made at the old Arts Laboratory and includes a discussion with William Burroughs. A portrait of Alexander Trocchi, covering his history as a writer, his interest in drugs, his family life, and ‘Sigma’, the organisation he founded to bring together like-minded people.


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