William S. Burroughs by Jeannette Montgomery Barron, New York, 1985

William Burroughs inspired many artists, but here is one of the most beautiful realization of his ideas on screen: Gus Van Sant’s 1978 short-film adaptation of  Burrough’s essay “Do Easy (DE)”.

“DE is a way of doing. It is a way of doing everything you do. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.”

Watch Gus Van Sant’s “The Discipline of DE”