Allen Ginsberg
Biography
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
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castelporziano ostia dei poeti as Self - poet
2025One to One: John & Yoko as Self (archive footage)
2025John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office as Self (archive footage)
2024A Supermarket in Californi as Self (voice) (archive)
2024Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri as Self (archive footage)
2023Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV as Self (archive footage)
2022Why Is We Americans? as Self (archive footage)
2021The Velvet Underground as Self (archive footage)
202070 Years of Youth Revolt as Self (archive footage)
2020Symphony Of The Invisible as Self (voice) (archive)
2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese as The Oracle of Delphi
2018Take Your Pills as Self (archive footage)
2017Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel as Self (archive footage)
2017How the Beatles Changed the World as Self (archive footage)
2015Don't Blink - Robert Frank as Self (archive footage)
2015A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine as Self (archive footage)
2014The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain as Self (archive footage)
2014Great Poets: In Their Own Words as Self (archive footage)
2014Beat Generation as Self (archive footage)
2012Norman Mailer: The American as Self (archive footage)
2012The Beat Hotel as Self (archive footage)
2011Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche as Self (archive footage)
2010William S. Burroughs: A Man Within as Self (archive footage)
2010Howl as Self
2009Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder as Self (archive footage)
2008Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell as Self (archive footage)
2008Tim Leary: The Art of Dying as Self (archive footage)
200765 Revisited as Self (archive footage)
2007The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music as Self (archive footage)
2006To John With Love as Self (archive footage)
2006Poets at the Living Theater as Self (archive footage)
2005No Direction Home: Bob Dylan as Self
2004Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair as Self (archive footage)
2003The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' as Self (archive footage)
2002The Cockettes as Self (archive footage)
2002American Magus as Self (archive footage)
2000As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty as Self (archive footage)
2000Condo Painting as Self (archive footage)
1999New York: A Documentary Film as Self - Commentator
1999Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles as Self (archive footage)
1999The Source as Self (archive footage)
1998Brakhage as Self (archive footage)
1997No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg as Self (archive footage)
1997Ballad of the Skeletons as Self (archive footage)
1997On the Road to Desolation as Self (archive footage)
1997Happy Birthday to John as Self
1997Birth of a Nation as Self
1997Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit as Self
1997U2: A Year in Pop as Self
1997A Poet from the Lower East Side as Self
1995Van Gogh's Ear as Self
1994The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg as Self (archive footage)
1994Jonas in the Desert as Self
1994ChickenHawk as Self
1994Moving Pictures as Self
1993Road Scholar as Self
1990Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections as Self
1990Berkeley in the Sixties as Self
1990Silence = Death as Self
1990Summer of Love as Self
1989Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center as Self
1989Heavy Petting as Self
1989Growing Up in America as Self
1989Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets as Self
1988Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman as Self
1986Autumn Ritual as Self
1986He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
1986Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank as Self
1985It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen as Lawyer
1985All Star Video as Self (archive footage)
1984Before Stonewall as Self
1984Burroughs: The Movie as Self
1984Good Morning, Mr. Orwell as Self
1984Ginsberg/Corso Tapes as Self
1983This Song for Jack as Self
1982Poetry in Motion as Self
1982Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint as Self
1981Greetings from Washington, D.C. as Self
1980No. 18: Mahagonny as Self
1980La marche gaie as Self
1980Lake Placid '80 as Self
1979Gay March on Washington as Self
1979Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds as Self
1978Thot-Fal'N as Self
1978Renaldo and Clara as The Father
1977Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration as Self
1976Lost, Lost, Lost as Self
1976Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1974Suite 212 as Self
1973We Can't Go Home Again as Allen
1973Ciao! Manhattan as Self
1973Pickup's Tricks as Self
1973Global Groove as Self
1971Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
1971Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family as Self
1971Johnny Minotaur
1969Bed Peace as Self
1969Me and My Brother as Self
1969The Fall as Self
1968Yippie as Self
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1968A.G. as Self
1968Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self (archive footage)
1968Chicago as Self
1968Underground New York as Self
1967Anatomy of Violence as Self
1967Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
1967Ah, Sunflower as Self
1967Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out as Self (archive footage)
1967Herostratus as Poet (voice)
1967Dont Look Back as Self (uncredited)
1967Hare Krishna as Self
1967Be-In as Self
1967Joan of Arc as Self
1966Galaxie as Self
1966Chappaqua as Messiah
1965Wholly Communion as Self
1965Dylan Speaks as Self (archive footage)
1965Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
1965Allan for Allan as Self
1965He! Viva Dada as Self
1964Couch as Self
1964Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1961Guns of the Trees as Self (voice)
1959Pull My Daisy as Alan