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Featuring long-lost footage and archival photos of William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Spike Lee, Madonna, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, John Waters and many others, Uncle Howard chronicles the fascinating but tragically short life of filmmaker Howard Brookner. To Aaron Brookner, he was a loving and inspirational uncle who died of AIDS in 1989 at the age of 34, when Aaron was only seven and Howard was on the brink of a promising career in film. Uncle Howard is the result of Aaron’s successful mission to preserve his uncle’s legacy – beginning with Howard’s 1983 debut film Burroughs: The Movie, the first and most revealing film about the iconic writer, and ending with photographs and rehearsal videos of Madonna from Bloodhounds Of Broadway, which Howard rushed to finish before his death. Through conversations with family and close friends including Tom DiCillo, Sara Driver, James Grauerholz, Jim Jarmusch and Robert Wilson, Aaron explores the vibrant cultural scene of late-’70s and ’80s downtown New York, where his uncle loved and lived life to the full.
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2016
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