Thanksgiving Prayer

Director: Gus Van Sant

Institute History

  • 1992 Sundance Film Festival

Description

A cinematic collage of cities, breadlines, burning buildings, the Lincoln Memorial, astronauts in space and the American flag, scored to William Burroughs reading his “Thanksgiving Prayer.”

Screening Details

Credits

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