O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder

Colin Still
2025-03-09


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102 min

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

Name Character Team
Colin Still Self Unowned
Gary Snyder Self Unowned
Peter Coyote Self Unowned
Jane Hirshfield Self Unowned
Jack Shoemaker Self Unowned