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Klaus Maeck «William S. Burroughs»
Klaus Maeck, «William S. Burroughs» Commissioner of Sewers, 1991
© Klaus Maeck


 
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Germany | 54' 43" | Concept: Klaus Maeck | Photograph: Udo Breger, Uli Gehner, Ruby Ray, Michael Schuff, Klaus Maeck | Camera: Heiner Mühlenbrock, Horst Markgraf | Sound: Egon Bunne, Anna Polke | Music: Brian Jones, Jorge Reyes, F.M.Einheit, Fish For Fish, W. S. Burroughs, Cheryl Hardwick, Lenny Pickett | Participants: Jürgen Ploog (Interview) | Schnitt: Tillmann Stracke | Edition / Production: VAP Hamburg | Archive / Collection: ZKM Videosammlung, Karlsruhe
 

 Klaus Maeck
«William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers»

Final public appearance and lecture by W. S. Burroughs on May 9, 1986, Cinema Filmkunst 66 in Berlin. Klaus Maeck illustrated the recordings of this public lecture with interviews and excerpts from Burroughs experimental films of the early 1960s as well as with additional footage of his «Dream-Machine.»