Beckett’s Film

    • Director

      Alan Schneider

    • Credits

      Writer: Samuel Beckett

    • Principal Cast

      Buster Keaton

  • Category

    Short
    Experimental
    Literature

In 1969 Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in recognition of his development of a circular form of reasoning that implies entrapment in circumstances of one’s own design. Film, directed by Alan Schneider in New York and written by Beckett, emanates directly from such reasoning, in which the main character, Buster Keaton, carefully blots out all external reality according to a prevailing philosophical principle: George Berkeley’s “Esse est percipi” (to be is to be perceived).

Notes by Experimental Film Club.

20 minutes , USA, 1965 , B&W

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