Acting
Community Rating
6.6
TMDB estimate
Born
January 19, 1916
Died
July 13, 1986 (age 70)
Brion Gysin (19 January 1916 – 13 July 1986) was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices. He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by cursive Japanese "grass" script and Arabic script. Burroughs later stated that "Brion Gysin was the only man I ever respected."

Nova '78
as Self (archive footage)
2025

FLicKeR
as Self (archive footage)
2009

Destroy All Rational Thought
as Self
1998

Ornette: Made in America
as Self
1986

The Dream Machine
1986

The Final Academy Documents
1984

Burroughs: The Movie
as Self
1984

Ghost at No. 9
1982

Psychic TV: First Transmission
1982

The Cut-Ups
1966