Starving Hysterical Naked...
Channel: Benjamin Seibert
Date: 2013-01-03

Starving, Hysterical, Naked...
An examination of the roots, realities, and religion of The Beats

Created and Directed by:  Benjamin Seibert

Using collected works of Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, this piece seeks to examine what made The Beats who they were, where they were going, and where they ultimately landed. With the restriction that all content (written, audio, video) be acquired through the creative commons and fair use, I sought to create and tell a story of a generation misunderstood.  The poems have been re-arranged into 5 acts.  With the help of free audio and video editing software, the audio clips, sound effects, and original recordings were mixed down to a single audio track.  Then with the contents of over a hundred hours of video, images were chosen and laid over the audio to change the context in which the words are experienced.

CONTENT CREDITS:

⠀⠀⠀Poems...

Howl by Allen Ginsberg (as read by Allen Ginsberg 1975).
Archive.org.  The Internet Archive, 2012. Web. Date of access.
Creative Commons License:  Attribution-NoDerivs-Non-Commercial

America by Allen Ginsberg (original recording).
Text used under fair use guidelines.

Fast Speaking Woman by Anne Waldman (as read by Anne Waldman 1975).
Archive.org.  The Internet Archive, 2012. Web. Date of access.
Creative Commons License:  Attribution-NoDerivs-Non-Commercial

Uh-Oh Plutonium! (as read by Anne Waldman 1975).
Archive.org.  The Internet Archive, 2012. Web. Date of access.
Creative Commons License:  Attribution-NoDerivs-Non-Commercial

Light and Shadow (as read by Anne Waldman 1975).
Archive.org.  The Internet Archive, 2012. Web. Date of access.
Creative Commons License:  Attribution-NoDerivs-Non-Commercial


⠀⠀⠀Video...

Archive.org.  The Internet Archive, 2012. Web. Date of access.
Creative Commons License:  Attribution-NoDerivs-Non-Commercial
& Public Domain

America 1955 (Public Domain), Boys Beware (Public Domain), Dragnet-Episode #18 The Big Seventeen w/Commercials (Public Domain), Assorted Public Service Announcements (Public Domain), Drug Addiction 1951 (Public Domain), Atomic Bomb Blast Effects (Public Domain), House Int 1954 (Public Domain), In Our Hands (Public Domain), Duck And Cover 1951 (Public Domain), Narcotic 1967 (Public Domain), Perversion 1965 (Public Domain), In The Suburbs 1957 (Public Domain), The Big City (Public Domain), Man Of Action 1955 (Public Domain), Buddhist Monastery (Fourth Dimension), Tomorrow 1954 (Public Domain), Tuesday In November (Public Domain), Your Town 1940 (Public Domain), Shopping 1957 (Public Domain), Dynamic Action 1956 (Public Domain), Disneyland Dream (Robbins Barstow, uploaded by Brian Barstow, National Film Registry), The Beatniks (Public Domain), Sex Madness (Public Domain), Reefer Madness (Public Domain), Manica 1934 (Public Domain), Wetbacks (Public Domain), Salvation Army Mission San Francisco (Public Domain), Date With Your Family 1950 (Public Domain), Opportunities Unlimited (Public Domain), Skyline New York (Public Domain), The Agony Of Ecstasy (George Maynard, Concordia University, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema), Chevrolet 1939  (Public Domain), Douglass Truth Closing Chant (Public Domain), Greenwhich 1960 (Public Domain), Coffee House 1969 (Public Domain), 1967 Peace March (Public Domain), Great Bell Chant (quicksilverscreen.com)


Vimeo.com.  Vimeo, 2012 Web. Date of access.
Creative Commons License:  Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

Capitalism Communism. Is This Love? (fislproduction)

⠀⠀⠀Audio...

FreeSound.org.  Free Sound, 2012 Web. Date of access.
Creative Commons License:  Attribution

rbhThunderstorm.wav (RHumphries), pigeonwings.aif (Tigersound), Fire_Forest_Inferno.aif (Dynamicell), HighwayUrban.wav (Cognito Perceptu), lonemonk__bar-crowd-logans-pub-feb-2007.wav (Lonemonk), Heartbeatenhanced-1.wav (Herbert Boland), citystreet.wav (sagetyrtle), meadow-ambience.wav (Eric5335), a-flag-flapping-in-the-wind-in-the-small-town-of-twentynine-palms-mojave-desert-california.wav (Felix Blume), Kargyraa.mp3 (Huun-Hur-Tu),  Carterattack.wav (GuitarGuy1985), BombEplosion.wav (Lord Razu).

Archive.org.  The Internet Archive, 2012. Web. Date of access.
Creative Commons License:  Attribution-NoDerivs-Non-Commercial

Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg Reading @ Naropa 1975 (Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics).