WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: COMMISSIONER OF SEWERS

Directed by Klaus Maeck (writer/producer of German New Wave surrealist masterpiece DECODER), this experimental documentary combines interview and archival material, paintings, and clips of Burroughs' film appearances with footage from his last European reading in Berlin on May 9th, 1986 to create an intriguing portrait of the man once described by Norman Mailer as "the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Here, Burroughs expounds on a buffet of untamed subjects like his beliefs on language as a weapon, the function of dreams, time travel, mummification and 20th-century socioeconomic systems.