Uncle Howard
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1h 37m
Directed by Aaron Brookner • 2016 • United States, United Kingdom
A nephew’s search for traces of his long-gone uncle’s brief, remarkable life yields a poignant elegy for a lost generation of gay artists. Howard Brookner was just thirty-four when he died of AIDS in 1989, but he had already left behind a formidable legacy in the three films he completed, including the acclaimed documentary BURROUGHS, made in collaboration with his subject, writer William S. Burroughs. When filmmaker Aaron Brookner seeks access to his uncle’s archives—ensconced in Burroughs’s closely guarded estate—he uncovers a window into a vanished New York and newfound insight into a man who moved among some of the defining creative and intellectual figures of his era.
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