Beat poet Christopher Maclaine made four films: The End, The Man Who Invented Gold, Beat and Scotch Hop. These films, with a collective running time of only sixty minutes, have been located at the margins of film history, the subject of rumor and speculation, largely unscreened and underappreciated. They have, nonetheless, exerted a strong influence on the language of cinema, profoundly influencing and anticipating the work of Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson and countless others. Entwining the ecstatic and the absurd to a delirious degree, these films never fail to provoke audience excitement with their hallucinatory and apocalyptic visions…