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Pull My Daisy

Robert FRANK / Alfred LESLIE

USA1958 28min 16mm B&W

Synopsis

Pull My Daisy is a Film by Alfred LESLIE and Robert FRANK, based on a novel of the same name by Jack KEROUAC, the famous Beat Generation. The Beat Generation was a product of the Second World War, in which a group of young men belived that life's truer meanings coould be found through Bohemian Western culture in general. They expressed this through their usage of drugs and free sex. The film shows such efforts. Allen GINSBERG and other young men chase away a priest who came for a visit with absurd questions, and they go our for a night time excursion. The narration by Jack KEROUAC is filled with the jazzy and psychedelic rhythms of the Beats. (PARK Dong-hyun)

Diretor

Robert FRANK

Born in 1924, a photographer and filmmaker, Robert Frank set out to observe and photograph the United States. The result was The Americans (1959), a visionary work and a milestone in the history of photography. He took his photographs with his ‘snap aesthetics’ technique, and was always unobtrusive and in the background of the misty images.

Alfred LESLIE

Alfred Leslie was born in New York in 1927, and was an authentic presence in American art and the youngest member of the take-command generation of abstract expressionist painters. In the late 1960s he would expand his vision to include narrative elements, dealing with themes of death and sexuality.