Documentary Film: “and when I die, I won’t stay dead,” the Life of Bob Kaufman

Beat poet Bob Kaufman (1925–1986) was founding editor of the journal Beatitude with Allen Ginsberg and others. During an eventful life, Kaufman was imprisoned, underwent electroshock therapy, suffered from drug addiction, and took a ten-year vow of silence following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Billy Woodberry, who will introduce his film, is one of the founders of the L.A. Rebellion film movement and a faculty member at California Institute of the Arts.

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