
Biography
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 â April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions.Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made (male) homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, asking: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Eastern religious disciplines. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in apartments in New York City's East Village. One of his most influential teachers was Tibetan Buddhist Chögyam Trungpa, the founder of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. At Trungpa's urging, Ginsberg and poet Anne Waldman started The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics there in 1974.Ginsberg took part in decades of political protest against everything from the Vietnam War to the War on Drugs. His poem "September on Jessore Road" called attention to the plight of Bengali refugees which was caused by the 1971 Genocide and it exemplifies what literary critic Helen Vendler described as Ginsberg's persistence in protesting against "imperial politics" and "persecution of the powerless". His collection The Fall of America shared the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1974. In 1979, he received the National Arts Club gold medal and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995 for his book Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986â1992.
Filmography
All 120
Movies 116
Self 86
TV Shows 4
Writter 2
Voice 1

Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV (2023)

Why Is We Americans? (2022)

Patti Smith: Electric Poet (2022)

The Velvet Underground (2021)

70 Years of Youth Revolt (2020)

Symphony Of The Invisible (2020)

Bob Dylan: Busy Being Born (2020)

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018)

Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel (2017)

How the Beatles Changed the World (2017)

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2017)

Don't Blink: Robert Frank (2017)

Uncle Howard (2017)

The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain (2014)

Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014)

Beat Generation (2014)

Tropico (2013)

Norman Mailer: The American (2012)

Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (2011)

Rich Hall's Continental Drifters (2011)

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)

Howl (2010)

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009)

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008)

65 Revisited (2007)

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (2007)

The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (2007)

Dylan Speaks 1965 (2006)

The Ballad of Greenwich Village (2005)

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair (2004)

The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (2003)

The Cockettes (2002)

American Magus (2002)

New York in the Fifties (2001)

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)

Condo Painting (2000)

New York: A Documentary Film (1999)

Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1999)

The Source (1999)

The Fifties (1997)

No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg (1997)

Ballad of the Skeletons (1997)

Happy Birthday to John (1997)

Birth of a Nation (1997)

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)

U2: A Year in Pop (1997)

A Poet from the Lower East Side (1997)

The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1996)

Van Gogh's Ear (1995)

ChickenHawk (1994)

Jonas in the Desert (1994)

Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider (1994)

Road Scholar (1993)

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1993)

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections (1990)

Silence = Death (1990)

Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)

Summer of Love (1990)

Heavy Petting (1989)

Growing Up in America (1989)

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets (1989)

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today (1987)

Autumn Ritual (1986)

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)

All Star Video (1985)

Before Stonewall (1984)

Burroughs: The Movie (1984)

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (1984)

This Song for Jack (1983)

Poetry in Motion (1982)

Allan ân Allenâs Complaint (1982)

No. 18: Mahagonny (1980)

Castelporziano, Ostia dei poeti (1980)

Lake Placid '80 (1980)

La marche gaie (1980)

The War at Home (1979)

Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979)

Thot-Fal'N (1978)

Renaldo and Clara (1978)

Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration (1977)

Bob Dylan: Hard Rain (1976)

Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)

Suite 212 (1974)

Ciao! Manhattan (1973)

Global Groove (1973)

Pickup's Tricks (1973)

About Me: A Musical (1971)

Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family (1971)

Johnny Minotaur (1971)

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1969)

Bed Peace (1969)

Me and My Brother (1969)

The Fall (1969)

Yippie (1968)

The Dick Cavett Show (1968)

Underground New York (1968)

Joan of Arc (1967)

Anatomy of Violence (1967)

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967)

Ah, Sunflower (1967)

Herostratus (1967)

Hare Krishna (1967)

Be-In (1967)

What's Happening? (1967)

Galaxie (1966)

Chappaqua (1966)

Wholly Communion (1965)

Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965)

Allan for Allan (1965)

He! Viva Dada (1965)

Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes (1964)

Couch (1964)

Guns of the Trees (1961)

Pull My Daisy (1959)

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank

It's So Far Out, It's Straight Down!

Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally

It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
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GenderMale
Birthday1926-06-03
Deathday1997-04-05 (70 years old)
Birth nameIrwin Allen Ginsberg
Place of birthNewark, United States of America
ReligionBuddhism
FatherLouis Ginsberg
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesEast Village · Paterson, United States of America
Also known asIrwin Allen Ginsberg
AwardsGolden Wreath, National Book Award for Poetry, War Resisters League Peace Award, National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Frost Medal
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