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English. 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. In 2022, the decennial poll by Sight and Sound magazine named it one of the ...
Almeidolaz. Question about 'As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty'. Earlier today I watched this beautiful film and I adored it, but I have a question. Lots of times during the film "This is a political film" shows up on the screen, and I couldn't really understand what Mekas means by this.
Content collapsed. "As I Was Moving Ahead is a record of subtle feelings, emotions, daily joys of people as recorded in the voices, faces and small everyday activities of people I have met, or ...
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Dec 12, 2001 · Variety. "It's the ultimate Dogme movie, before the birth of Dogme," is how 79-year-old Lithuanian-born independent mainstay Jonas Mekas describes peaceful, enthralling assemblage encompassing home movie footage from last three decades of his life. Read More. By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW.
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Oct 16, 2002 · Directed by Jonas Mekas. US, 2000, 16mm, color, 288 min. Aiming to undermine both traditional Hollywood narrative cinema and the experimental films of classical modernism, Lithuanian-born filmmaker Jonas Mekas explores “subtle, almost invisible acts, experiences, and feelings” in this lyrical work, lasting nearly five hours and divided into ...
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty: Directed by Jonas Mekas. With Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Hollis Frampton. 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.
Jonas Mekas, 2000, 288 min. New restored version. "Perhaps Jonas Mekas ’s cinematic magnum opus, As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty is the filmmaker’s nearly five-hour film which he describes as “a masterpiece of nothing”. Through the film’s twelve chapters, the artist describes his obsession with ...
