THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG International Authors and Films

This unique and thought-provoking documentary explores the essence of the visionary poet, pacifist, teacher, writer and activist Allen Ginsberg. Director Aronson fashions his biography in clear chronological order, each decade serving as a chapter in Ginsberg’s life. His dynamic era in the forties and fifties is best known to “Beat” history buffs; when he befriended Burroughs and Kerouac, both of whom helped him to establish his unique persona as an intellectual. Aronson ( The Divided Trai? combines new film footage accumulated over the past ten years, and footage never before made public, including revealing interviews with Joan Baez, Ken Kesey, Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, among others, to offer a revealing portrait of one of the most interesting personalities of our time.