On Editing Kesey. Un monolite cinematografico degli anni Sessanta

[Autom. eng. transl.] The article discusses a mythical and semi-unknown film shot in (or since) 1964 by Ken Kesey (the year of the publication of "Sometimes a Great Notion" and two years later of "Someone Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), during a long journey from California to New York on a multicolored school bus. A film fifty hours long and largely invisible, of which it is difficult to find news in the manuals of the history of cinema, American cinema or experimental cinema. A film messed up but not without charm, that dialogues with certain radical experiences of "expanded" cinema and direct cinema of the time, and with the new road movie and the psychedelic pop movie that would have been born shortly thereafter. And certainly also with the western tradition and the most classic American narrative archetypes. A film ("the greatest home movie ever made") whose main feature is the fact of being "unedited", not mounted: not a defect, but a precise poetic necessity.