Editing Cut-up technique (section)

===In film===
[[Antony Balch]] and Burroughs created a collaboration film, ''The Cut-Ups''<ref name="dangerousminds1">{{cite web|url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/william_burroughs_antony_balch_cut_ups|title=A Complete Disorientation of the Senses: William Burroughs' and Antony Balch's 'Cut Ups'|date=16 December 2010|website=dangerousminds.net|access-date=9 April 2018}}</ref> that opened in London in 1967. This was part of an abandoned project called ''Guerrilla Conditions'' meant as a documentary on Burroughs and filmed throughout 1961–1965. Inspired by Burroughs' and Gysin's technique of cutting up text and rearranging it in random order, Balch had an editor cut his footage for the documentary into little pieces and impose no control over its reassembly.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brightlightsfilm.com/appraisal-films-william-burroughs-brion-gysin-anthony-balch-terms-recent-avant-garde-theory/|title=An Appraisal of the Films of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Anthony Balch in terms of Recent Avant Garde Theory – Bright Lights Film Journal|date=1 February 2003|website=brightlightsfilm.com|access-date=9 April 2018}}</ref> The film opened at [[Oxford Street]]'s Cinephone cinema and had a disturbing reaction. Many audience members claimed the film made them ill, others demanded their money back, while some just stumbled out of the cinema ranting "it's disgusting".<ref name="dangerousminds1"/> Other cut-up films include ''Ghost at n°9 (Paris)'' (1963–1972), a posthumously released short film compiled from reels found at Balch's office after his death, and ''William Buys a Parrott'' (1982), ''Bill and Tony'' (1972), ''Towers Open Fire'' (1963) and ''The Junky's Christmas'' (1966).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs.html|title=UbuWeb Film & Video – William S. Burroughs|website=www.ubu.com|access-date=9 April 2018}}</ref>