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Film: Shorts

A Cool Man: Short Films by Alfred Leslie

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In its 30 hectic minutes Pull My Daisy (1959) manages to embody an entire generation of spontaneous yet carefully crafted art. Based on the third act of Jack Kerouac's never-performed play Beat Generation, this iconic black-and-white production — directed by renowned artists Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, narrated by Kerouac, and scored by David Amram — stars characters from all walks of Beat life. Also screening in this Leslie tribute are two other short films, The Last Clean Shirt (1964), which features text titles by poet Frank O'Hara, and the more-recent self portrait, A Stranger Calls at Midnight: a self-interview of sorts (2008).

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