„If you cut into the present, the future leaks out.“
— William S. Burroughs, „Origin And Theory Of The Tape Cut-Ups“
Sometimes it’s a good idea to listen closely to our fellow artists of this world. Whatever the business of your business might be, the alleged „outcasts“, the „weird“ and „crazy“ ones were and are always one step ahead. Their seemingly nonsensical utterings may only make sense in retrospect, but fortunate are those who walk in both worlds. Here is to William S. Burroughs, a man whose work no serious filmmaker would ever dare to put on the big screen till this day*.
* „Naked Lunch“ is a rather freely interpreted re-imagination of how the book might have been written, it does not contain the book’s content in the least.