Howard Brookner’s landmark documentary and the only feature portrait made in close collaboration with William S. Burroughs. Filmed over five years and featuring Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Terry Southern and others, it offers an intimate and revealing exploration of Burroughs’s life, work and enduring cultural influence.

An intimate behind-the-scenes portrait and the sole documentary record of Robert Wilson’s unfinished opera the CIVIL warS, created for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival. The film captures the ambition, chaos and brilliance behind the one major work Wilson was unable to complete, featuring Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs, David Byrne, Etel Adnan and other close collaborators.