Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Destroy All Rational Thought
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1998 · FILM

Destroy All Rational Thought

Celebrating William Burroughs and Brion Gysin in Ireland

Runtime
48 min
Documentary

Synopsis

The Beat Generation's significant experimental activities occurred in Tangier, Morocco, where William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Moroccan painter Hamri influenced Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Allen Ginsberg in adopting an existence outside conventional legal and social norms. This DVD includes one of the last interviews with Burroughs, along with previously unseen archival footage capturing him during his peak in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Credits

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 4

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating, logline. Sign in to add what you know.