NOVA EXPRESS - 'The Subliminal Kid' by William S. Burroughs (excerpt read by Phil Proctor)

​L.A.-based filmmaker Andre Perkowski’s Nova Express is an experimental anti-narrative cinematic experience, a kind of ongoing, unfolding pastiche of found footage cobbled together from seemingly random sources, while the soundtrack features a host of recognizable folks reading from William S. Burroughs’s 1964 novel of the same name, people like Allen Ginsberg, Kathleen Cecchin and even Burroughs himself; for this excerpt, we’re hearing a Night Flight fave and latest contributor, Phil Proctor of the Firesign Theatre, reading an excerpt called “The Subliminal Kid.”

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Perkowski uses all types of visual mnemonics here, lots of imagery we’ve all seen before —1950s-era secret military base footage, Fedora's film noir detectives, stethoscope doctors plunging hypodermic aiguilles into prone patients, and lots of UFO imagery and astronaut-looking spacemen — and the effect is both familiar and strange at the same time.

Phil Proctor reads "The Subliminal Kid"

The music is by Kristin Palker & Andre Perkowski.

​Watch an excerpt from draft 5 of "NOVA EXPRESS" a film by Andre Perkowski

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