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New beat-documentary
"Love Always, Carolyn"

Invited to Chicago International Film Festival

October 6-20 2011!!

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A 2009 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ASKS ABOUT JACK KEROUAC by Katie Marples and Walt Klappert

Katie Marples, a Junior at the Ursuline Academy, a private Catholic girls’ High Scholl in Cincinnati, interviewed Walt Klappert, Producer and Coauthor of the play “Beat,” about Jack Kerouac.  Here is how it went . . .

Katie: In what ways do you think Kerouac's writing style affected his novels?

Walt: Kerouac's "Spontaneous Prose” style was controversial among critics.  Truman Capote remarked for example, "That's not writing, it's typing."  However, the resulting casual style worked well for Jack’s readers and he became popular as a result.  For the record, Jack’s first book “The Town and the City” copied the style of Thomas Wolfe and sold poorly.

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AMBA On-Line Gallery

Michael Bowen: A Retrospective

 

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Featured Artist

Master of Found Art... John Gibbon

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NEW FILM AND BOOK
By Austrian Film Maker and Writer

TILMAN OTTO WAGNER

The Beat Generation In A Scholastic Analysis

"Experimental homage to the beat generation
and their artistic universe...
uncontrolled energy and subversive creativity."

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BEAT TODAY (2004) by Tilman Otto Wagner

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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind...

 

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Ongoing Features

 

BEAT FLICKS

UNDERGROUND FILMS - VIDEOS

From the Archives

BEAT EPHEMERA 'MISS BEAT 1959'

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Joe Ferris February 15, 1943 - January 30, 2004

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Gas House -- Venice, California

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