Henry Ferrini (born 1953, Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is an American non-fiction filmmaker best known for his portraits of Jack Kerouac and Charles Olson.
During the administration of President Jimmy Carter under a CETA Grant he learned the craft of filmmaking while making The Light, the Quality, the Time, the Place, a meditation on environmental responsibility.
By fusing visual history, language and jazz into a 30-minute film poem, Lowell Blues uses the voices of Robert Creeley, Gregory Corso, David Amram and Johnny Depp to reveal the wonders of Kerouac's childhood holy land.
Last Call takes a personal look at a Nantucket barroom that flourished during the 1960s but did not survive the island's transformation from hardscrabble fishing town into one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in America.
The sixty-minute film moves from Massachusetts to Black Mountain College to Cape Ann following Robert Creeley's precept that "Form is never more than an extension of content.