Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated. The film charts the development of Burroughs’ unique literary style and his wildly unconventional life, including his travels from the American Midwest to North Africa and several personal tragedies. 

Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner’s 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs was for decades mainly the stuff of legend. The original negative of Burroughs was considered lost, and it was not until 2011 that the director’s nephew, Aaron Brookner, uncovered a print of the film at the Museum of Modern Art, as well as a wealth of previously unseen footage stored in Burroughs’s apartment. This newly discovered material serves as the basis for a new documentary Uncle Howard, which screens at the Cube from Monday 9th til Tuesday 10th January.

A one-of-a-kind nonfiction portrait that was brought to life with the help of a remarkable crew of friends, including Jim Jarmusch and Tom DiCillo, and that features on-screen appearances by fellow artists of Burroughs’s including Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, and Terry Southern.

"BIZARRELY FUNNY... Rarely is a (film) as well attuned to its subject as 'Burroughs'" - New York Times

"A WONDERFUL BIOGRAPHY... It offers American in the 80s a refreshingly irreverent mediation on itself" - Village Voice

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