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O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder (2025)
Directed by Colin Still
Documentary · 1h 42m
The first feature-length film documenting the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Gary Snyder. A participant in the famed 1955 Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco that launched the Beat era (and the careers of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac), Snyder later lived and studied in Japan, becoming a Zen teacher. He is the model for the character of Japhy Ryder in Jack Kerouac’s bestselling novel, The Dharma Bums.
Cast
Gary Snyder
Peter Coyote
Crew
- Director
- Colin Still
- Director of Photography
- Colin Still, Mark Trottenberg
- Editor
- Harry Baker, Anna Price
- Producer
- Colin Still
Details
- Release date
- 2025-03-09
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Optic Nerve