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Jonas Mekas (/ ˈ m iː k ɑː s /; [1] Lithuanian: [ˈjonɐs ˈmækɐs]; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". [2]
Jun 13, 2017 · Walden. Another film that is considered to be a classic in the world of Avant-garde cinema is Walden. This film is a mix of notes, diaries, and sketches by Mekas. This film truly showcased the poetic side of Mekas which is true throughout all of his films. If you are looking for a starting point this film is great for it.
Jonas Mekas (1922-2019), Lithuanian-born poet, philosopher and 'the godfather of American avant-garde cinema', has made hundreds of films and set up the Anth...
Dec 23, 2017 · Lost, Lost, Lost, 1976. December 23, 2017 (December 28, 2017) acquarello. In Reel 2 of Lost, Lost, Lost, the first volume of Jonas Mekas’s diary film, Diaries, Notes, and Sketches, Mekas’s commentary of his early life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as an immigrant and refugee drifting from factory to factory, accepting a series of temporary jobs ...
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 ...
The revelation of Jonas Mekas’s Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania in 1972 – particularly in contrast to his Guns of the Trees, which was made a dozen years earlier – was the unexpected seriousness, candour, precision and even reticence of a voice that had previously been identified largely by its shrillness and stridency, in cinema as well as in the pages of Film Culture and the ...
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Returning from the days gone by.—Jonas Mekas, “Ninth Idyll: Past Villages Over the Plains Flow the Rivers,” Idylls of Semeniskiai (1948) (wait until I publish my diaries…)—Jonas Mekas, Movie Journal, The Village Voice, January 2, 1969. 1. Jonas Mekas. Jonas Mekas. Jonas Mekas. The life. The life. The life. The I. The eye. The aye.
