An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, and William Burroughs Jr.

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.

Experimental artistic film which uses the milieu of experimental art with a background of various kinds of sounds and music.

A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.

A portrait of writer William Burroughs.

1920s mobster Dutch Schultz's dying words presented in the abstract.

The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.

How drugs have influenced artistic production in the course of the last 200 years, focusing on major European and American literary figures and visual artists.

A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.

A disturbingly organic-looking figure speaks to us of life, politics and death as the symbol of the common man toils away.

Burroughs takes down a book and reads us the story of Danny the Carwiper, who spends Christmas Day trying to score a fix, but finds the Christmas spirit instead.

An indictment ballad of all the different political groups in America.

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.

An hour-long interview with author William S. Burroughs in which he expounds on American culture, art and morals.

A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.

Short portrait of writer William S. Burroughs.

"The Discipline of D.E." is a short 16mm film directed by Gus Van Sant. It’s based on a story in “Exterminator!” by William Burroughs that at times reads like Buddhist noir: "DE is a way of doing. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.You can start right now tidying up your flat, moving furniture or books, washing dishes, making tea, sorting papers. Don't fumble, jerk, grab an object. Drop cool possessive fingers onto it like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest.”

Experimental film by William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch

Dedicated to William Burroughs; ritual, eroticism, innocence and its loss.

Essentially a dizzying montage of quirky shots of legendary Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs and noted surrealist artist Brion Gysin, this nearly 20 minute avant-garde short features repeated articulations of such random things as "Hello," "Where are we now?," and "Look at that picture" instead of music or standard dialogue. The narrative is decidedly nonlinear and perplexing, with no discernible plot whatsoever as we see images of Gysin working on his paintings and calligraphic designs and Burroughs rummaging through draws, packing a suitcase, giving a young man a physical, making a call in a phone booth, and waiting on a platform for a subway train.

A bizarre silent short film showing author William S. Burroughs negotiating to buy a parrot.

Dramatizations, cut ups, and psychological experimentation based on the works of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin.