Samuel Beckett
April 13, 1906 · 120 years old
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Pr…
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Film
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est...
NOTFILM
A documentary inquiry into the strange but true collaboration of Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton.
Si j'avais quatre dromadaires
Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries