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Jun 4, 2016 · Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of...
Dec 1, 2012 · So it’s been good to hear that Aaron Brookner is intending on restoring and reissuing his uncle’s debut film, having found the original print along with many outtakes. Howard Brookner died of AIDS in 1989 so Aaron is launching a Kickstarter fund to restore the film today, December 1st, which is World AIDS Day:
Jul 19, 2016 · Aaron Brookner and Jim Jarmusch. Paddy Breathnach’s film Viva, also showing at Gaze. Aaron’s work restoring Howard’s film rekindled warm memories of his late relative. He was just eight when ...
Dec 16, 2016 · But the quality of discovery about Burroughs is very much the director’s doing.’ To some extent, the same can be said of his nephew Aaron Brookner’s Uncle Howard, a tribute to the uncle who inspired his career, but who died of AIDS in New York City, where he was born, aged 35.
Nov 27, 2016 · He died of AIDS in April 1989, a few days shy of his thirty-fifth birthday. Today he is best known for his 1983 documentary portrait of William S. Burroughs, Burroughs: The Movie . But he might have fallen into complete obscurity if not for his nephew Aaron Brookner, who dug up and restored the Burroughs film (rereleased by Janus Films and ...
Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in NYC in 1989 while in post-production on his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work has been buried for 30 years in William S. Burroughs ' bunker until his nephew Aaron Brookner unearths his story and the memory of everything he was.
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.
