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An Autumn Wind

Iara Lee · Documentary / Poem / Experimental · 8 min · 5.6K views

Directed by Iara Lee · Starring Irene Fitzpatrick, Allen Ginsberg · 1994

Allen Ginsberg reads his own haiku over images of Kyoto's temples and rock gardens in Iara Lee's contemplative film poem.

Beat poet Allen Ginsberg's voice meets the stillness of Kyoto's zen gardens.

In the early 90s filmmaker iara lee, went to beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg's apartment in the East Village in NYC to record his reading of Matsuo Basho's haiku poems, but instead, the always-irreverent Allen surprised her

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