The story of a novel and an exorcism. In 1960, Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road, decided to distance himself from alcohol and fame and hide in the mountain. Travelling companions and heirs of the feeling (Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Tom Waits) revisit Big Sur. Jay Farrar (Son Volt) and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) play the notes.

Sunday 1st / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
Monday 2nd / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1
Wednesday 4th / 20:15 / Rex
(*) Presented by Javier Pérez Andújar

This is the story of a novel and an exorcism. On the Road, from 1957, had transformed Jack Kerouac from emerging novelist to literary rock star: baptized as the embodiment of a generation, cannibalized by his fans, reduced to the condition of celebrity. Towards 1960, fame had transformed the young Kerouac into a drunk cynic and depressive. To distance himself from alcohol and fame, the author decided to self-exile in poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin, and to write a new novel. Big Sur, the resulting book, is the unexpected culmination of Kerouac's confrontation with his shames and demons, and that's the story of this novel. The film takes us down various paths, archive of the beat clubs of San Francisco and images from the time period; the remembrance of friends and travelling companions (the majority of whom are characters in the book), like Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Cassady, Joyce Johnson and Michael McClure; heirs of the feeling like Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye or Tom Waits analyze Big Sur and calibrate his personal impact; passages from the book itself, narrated in the voice of Kerouac by John Ventimiglia (Artie Bucco in Los Sopranos); and, as if this weren't enough, an original soundtrack specially composed by Jay Farrar (Son Volt) and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie). The full works.