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Jul 19, 2016 · Film. A lost New York rescued from the bunker of William Burroughs. Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and...
Jan 27, 2016 · In 2011, Howard Brookner’s nephew, Aaron Brookner, undertook a search for his uncle’s missing work and, in addition to uncovering a print of the documentary at MoMA, he also found a vast trove of footage in Burroughs’s apartment, a former YMCA locker room that the author called the Bunker.
Jul 6, 2021 · Twenty-five years later, his nephew, director Aaron Brookner, sets out on a quest to find the lost negative of "Burroughs: The Movie", his uncle's critically-acclaimed portrait of legendary author William S. Burroughs with sound recorded by Jim Jarmusch and cinematography by Tom DiCillo.
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Nov 14, 2016 · “Bloodhounds of Broadway” was intended to be Brookner’s big screen breakthrough, but the director died just months before its release.
Now on a personal journey, his nephew Aaron unearths Howard's filmmaking legacy and the memory of everything he was. UNCLE HOWARD is an intertwining tale of past and present, recapturing a vanished era of '80s New York tainted by luminaries such as Madonna, Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson.
Dec 15, 2016 · Aaron Brookner's new documentary 'Uncle Howard' goes back in time to William Burroughs’ bunker on the Lower East Side, a rich, hidden archive of New York’s 80s art scene
Uncle Howard. Director Howard Brookner's body of work is rediscovered 30 years after his death. Aaron Brookner's lovely documentary starts out as one thing and then becomes several...
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- Documentary, Biography
