The Source

The creation and survival of the Beat generation is presented through archive footage and interviews. We meet Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ken Kesey, Philip Glass, Neal Cassady and many more in footage from the 1940s up until the present. Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs met in 1944 and with that the founding of the Beat generation was laid. It bound together a string of geniuses, odd existences and artistic personalities, some were ephemeral, others became legends. As reflected in the title, Chuck Workman wants to show how the beat cuIture affected not onIy the 50s and 60s but also the present. It took him four years to finalise the film and the result is a goldmine for Beat enthusiasts. Neal Cassady, with a naked upper body, scares people to death by driving far too fast. Timothy Leary utters the legendary words 'turn on-tune in- drop out' and explains why you should stay on ground level when you do LSD. Jack Kerouac explains the difference between Beats and hippies. Allen Ginsberg clangs his brass cymbals and praises buddhism. William Burroughs admits that he was almost always in love with his male friends and his brother tells us why he didn't have the energy to finish Naked Lunch. The tempo is fast. You are thrown backwards and forwards between old and new, famous and unknowns, archive footage and interviews. Various periods of time and moods are emphasised by music from Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Philip Glass, Sonic Youth and many more. Occasionally the neverending flood of pictures and sound is broken off by longer, fictionalised monologues where John Turturro, Johnny Depp and Dennis Hopper embody the original Beat trio and recite from their most famous texts.

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Orig. titel
Source, The: Medverkande
Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, John Turturro: Producent
Chuck Workman: Manus
Chuck Workman: Foto
Nancy Schreiber, Tom Hurwitz, Don Lenzer, Andrew Dintenfass