And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead
导演：
Billy Woodberry
剧情简介
2015美国纪录片《And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead》由Billy Woodberry导演，影片讲述的是：
The longawaited second feature film by Billy Woodberry recovers the legend legacy and ultimately tragic life of Beatpoet Bob Kaufman 19251986 skillfully melding recitations of his verse together with rare archival photographs and interviews to offer a moving homage to the artist often called the “American Rimbaud” Like Bless Their Little Hearts 1984 Woodberry’s celebrated neorealist debut film And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead chronicles with great sensitivity an unwritten chapter in the history of marginalized America shedding new light on Kaufman’s still underappreciated poetry and the difficult struggles of the halfblack halfJewish and fervently leftwing poet A poet of the oral tradition Kaufman’s verse was neither written nor recorded and threatened to disappear entirely if not for the valiant efforts of his second wife to publish her husband’s work Equally fleeting was the figure of Kaufman himself who once declared that his “ambition is to be completely forgotten” and who at the height of his creative powers took a selfimposed and apparently unbroken tenyear vow of silence in haunting lament for the assassinated John F Kennedy Woodberry whose own thirtyoneyear break from filmmaking is subtly acknowledged by his film reasserts Kaufman’s fleeting yet vivid figure into the art and poetry scenes transforming Greenwich Village and San Francisco’s North Beach offering firsthand accounts of Kaufman by fellow poets such as Jack Hirschman as well as extraordinary photographs of the Happenings and haunts animated by Kaufman’s indelible presence Especially resonant is Woodberry’s careful use of Kaufman’s own words released like birds throughout the film together with the understated fragments of the jazz and conga drums that so inspired the unique cadence and visionary language of Kaufman’s extraordinary poems – Haden Guest
The longawaited second feature film by Billy Woodberry recovers the legend legacy and ultimately tragic life of Beatpoet Bob Kaufman 19251986 skillfully melding recitations of his verse together with rare archival photographs and interviews to offer a moving homage to the artist often called the “American Rimbaud” Like Bless Their Little Hearts 1984 Woodberry’s celebrated neorealist debut film And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead chronicles with great sensitivity an unwritten chapter in the history of marginalized America shedding new light on Kaufman’s still underappreciated poetry and the difficult struggles of the halfblack halfJewish and fervently leftwing poet A poet of the oral tradition Kaufman’s verse was neither written nor recorded and threatened to disappear entirely if not for the valiant efforts of his second wife to publish her husband’s work Equally fleeting was the figure of Kaufman himself who once declared that his “ambition is to be completely forgotten” and who at the height of his creative powers took a selfimposed and apparently unbroken tenyear vow of silence in haunting lament for the assassinated John F Kennedy Woodberry whose own thirtyoneyear break from filmmaking is subtly acknowledged by his film reasserts Kaufman’s fleeting yet vivid figure into the art and poetry scenes transforming Greenwich Village and San Francisco’s North Beach offering firsthand accounts of Kaufman by fellow poets such as Jack Hirschman as well as extraordinary photographs of the Happenings and haunts animated by Kaufman’s indelible presence Especially resonant is Woodberry’s careful use of Kaufman’s own words released like birds throughout the film together with the understated fragments of the jazz and conga drums that so inspired the unique cadence and visionary language of Kaufman’s extraordinary poems – Haden Guest
