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Like most visionaries, William Burroughs takes his inner war outside the walls, to fight against the evil spirits of power and control that roam the human race. How do these "alien spirits" get us to want always more, better, newer, disregarding the consequences? For Burroughs, it's simple: we are the junky and the pusher, locked in a deadly embrace of desire. With his unique experience, Prof. Burroughs teaches us "the algebra of need", tenaciously, while his ferocious alter ego William Seward blasts us with sensory overload, sulfuric humor, to kill our larval defenses and destroy the controls, the rackets, the "Nova Mob" that enslave us: a lesson paid for in blood. Borrowing the author's telescoping imagery, the film attempt to follow his trips, real and imaginary, pauses a little to tell the story, and goes on to the next stage of Burroughs' "voyage in inner space", where he mixes and cuts his way toward space, out of the slavery of time, to freedom and death.

France - 1999 - 48 mn - Betacam SP - Colour

Réalisation Jean-François Vallée Scénario Jean-François Vallée Image Jean-François Vallée, Julien Weiller Son Julien Weiller Montage Elizabeth Downer, Katia Manceau Musique Ann Klein Textes dits par Philippe Clévenot

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