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Title The Japanese sandman
Published San Francisco, CA : Frameline, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (12 min.)
Series LGBT studies in video
Summary At once wry travelogue and heartbreaking tale of love lost, The Japanese sandman is a visual interpretation of a letter William S. Burroughs wrote in 1953 to Allen Ginsberg (from the collection The Yage Letters). Told through Burroughs' incisive voice, cocaine snorting in Panama and post-prom handjobs in 1931 St. Louis becomes a meditation on loss, memory and the human condition. Actor/ performance artist John Fleck leads a stand-out cast through Burroughs recounting of scoring opiates, whores and boys in Panama and, in the letter's P.S., a love affair with farm boy Billy Bradshinkel in the Ozark's of his youth. Imperial Teen's Roddy Bottum provides the lively and compelling score
Credits Director: Ed Buhr; writer: William S. Burroughs; director of photography: Davon Slininger; art director: Robert Prior; editor: Jennifer Calbi; original music: Roddy Bottum; costume designer: Eleanor Estes; make-up & hair: Keston Ridley; additional make-up & hair: Rachel McGoldrick; production: Emily White, Brittany Klaus, Amanda Ferguson
Performer John Fleck, Stephen Twardokus, Nick Niven, Amy O'Neill, Sam Slovick, Cristina Nava, Darcey Leonard, Leigh Rose, Ray Lopez, Ferd Eggan, Amanda Ferguson, Eleanor Estes, Keston Ridley
Notes This edition in English
Subject Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 -- Drama
SUBJECT Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 fast
Genre/Form Feature films
Drama
Fiction films
Short films
Short films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Courts métrages.
Films de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Bottum, Roddy, 1963- composer (expression)
Buhr, Ed, director
Fleck, John, 1951- actor.
Inspired by (work): Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Correspondence. Selections.
Frameline (Firm), film distributor.