Alexander Trocchi

Alexander Trocchi

Birth : 1925-07-30, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Death : 1984-04-15

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Alexander Trocchi

Movies

Young Adam
Novel
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Cain's Film
A film about Alexander Trocchi. Scottish born poet, writer, translator and author of "Young Adam" and "Cain's Book". Part of the film was made at the old Arts Laboratory and includes a discussion with William Burroughs. A portrait of Alexander Trocchi, covering his history as a writer, his interest in drugs, his family life, and ‘Sigma’, the organisation he founded to bring together like-minded people.
Wholly Communion
Himself
A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry. It came to be seen as one of the cultural high points of the Swinging Sixties.
Towers Open Fire
Antony Balch tackles key themes and ideas from the writing of William S. Burroughs in a unique, cinematic style.