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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty is a 2000 experimental documentary film directed by Jonas Mekas. [1] The film had its world premiere on November 4, 2000, at the London Film Festival and is a compilation of Mekas' home movies.
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Jonas Mekas
- 2001-12-12
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. Avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas reveals home movies of family and friends. "As I Was Moving Ahead...
- (1)
- Documentary
- Jonas Mekas
Throughout the nearly five-hour diary film “As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty,” New York avant-garde icon Jonas Mekas delivers these phrases in voiceover with a halting lilt, as if tickled by the extreme commitment that the church of cinema can exact from its congregation, or sheepish about the often ...
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- Jonas Mekas
Oct 16, 2002 · Edited from diaristic footage of the artist’s life in New York between 1970 and 1999, it follows the circular, fragmented structure of the filmmaker’s own memory, which revolves around “brief moments of happiness and beauty” and refuses to analyze or deconstruct the past.
Through the film’s twelve chapters, the artist describes his obsession with nothing – or what’s considered nothing, in cinema, in life. An associative, poetic construction of footage shot between 1970 and 1999, the film finds beauty in the disorder of everyday life.
Through the film’s twelve chapters, the artist describes his obsession with nothing—or what’s considered nothing, in cinema, in life. An associative, poetic construction of footage shot between 1970 and 1999, the film finds beauty in the disorder of everyday life.
