A final film for this week of Burroughs-related posts. Thot-Fal’N (1978) is a typical piece of Stan Brakhage montage: 9 minutes of completely silent close-ups, shots blurred to incoherence, and occasional clips of American streets or people. Among the identifiable humans there’s a brief sequence with William Burroughs and a balloon, and also shots of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. Brakhage enjoyed creating cinema that was deliberately abstract and without narrative so there’s no need to go looking for a meaning.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Mr Bradly Mr Martin Hear Us Through The Hole In Thin Air
• The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, a film by Gerrit van Dijk
• Burroughs at 100
• Nova Express, a film by Andre Perkowski
• Decoder, a film by Jürgen Muschalek
• The Burroughs Century
• Interzone: A William Burroughs Mix
• Sine Fiction
• The Ticket That Exploded: An Ongoing Opera
• Burroughs: The Movie revisited
• Zimbu Xolotl Time
• Ah Pook Is Here
• Jarek Piotrowski’s Soft Machine
• Looking for the Wild Boys
• Wroblewski covers Burroughs
• Mugwump jism
• Brion Gysin’s walk, 1966
• Burroughs in Paris
• William Burroughs interviews
• Soft machines
• Burroughs: The Movie
• William S Burroughs: A Man Within
• The Final Academy
• William Burroughs book covers
• Towers Open Fire