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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...
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.
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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 ...
- Midwife of The New York Independent Cinema
- Jonas Mekas, “Filmer”
- Filming/Figuring Memory
- Walden
- Reminiscences of A Journey to Lithuania
- Lost Lost Lost
- Paradise Not Yet Lost
- Elegies
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
In the late 1940s, Jonas Mekas and his brother Adolfas were living in a displaced persons camp in Wisenbaden, Germany, following the end of the Second World War. There, for the first time in their lives, they had seen some films that stirred in them an interest in the medium, like John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). They had also...
When the Mekas brothers arrived in America, they immediately purchased their first camera, a Bolex. Mekas shot short bits of footage whenever he could, ostensibly as practice for future film projects, while aspiring to make feature length and documentary films. Deeply impressed by John Cassavetes’ Shadows (the first version) and Robert Frank and Al...
In 1971 Mekas admitted, “There is practically no snow in New York; all my New York notebooks are filled with snow.” (8) The world that Mekas sees through his lens might not be exactly as it is, but he is looking somewhere else, towards Paradise: a snowy street in New York, children sledding, a woman twisting a blade of grass in Central Park. Mekas ...
Walden was Mekas’ first diary film, and it was edited as a collection of images gathered between the years 1964 and 1969. Its original title was Diaries, Notes, Sketches, which was the intended name for all of his films (they would each have different subtitles), though when it became too confusing for film laboratories to distinguish between films...
After Walden, the next film Mekas completed was Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania. By 1971, after twenty years of exile, the Lithuanian émigrés were finally allowed to return to their home country. The film consists of three parts. The first contains some of Mekas’ first footage shot in New York in the years 1950–53, scenes of immigrant life ...
Walden may have been Mekas’ first diary film, but the film that incorporated Mekas’ earliest footage was the one that told the story of his postwar arrival in America, Lost Lost Lost. The film is divided into two parts: the first concerns life in the Lithuanian community of Williamsburg, and the second chronicles Mekas’ move to Manhattan and his in...
In 1974, Mekas married Hollis Melton. Their daughter, Oona, was born the same year. Where Mekas had found a home in the independent film community during the 1950s and ’60s, by the mid-’70s he had his own family to care for. He made Paradise Not Yet Lost (aka Oona’s Third Year)in 1979 with footage shot in 1977. The film is arranged in six chronolog...
In the 1990s, Mekas began collecting footage from previous films to create several film portraits. Because his subjects had all passed away by the time of editing, however, these portraits function more as elegies. The first such elegy was made in 1978, when Mekas put together a sensitive portrait of close friend, filmmaker, artist, and Anthology b...
In 1991, Mekas released Quartet Number One, not knowing how long the long film project he was working on would be, or when it would be released. By 2000, As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty was completed, and the footage from Quartet Number One was included in the film. The film is indeed long, the longest of Mekas’ fi...
23. januar 2019. (2019-01-23) (96 god.) Džonas Mekas (engl. Jonas Mekas; Semeniškiai, Litvanija 24. decembar 1922 – Bruklin, Njujork, 23. januar 2019) je američki reditelj, direktor fotografije, montažer, pisac, glumac, pesnik, umetnik, filmski kritičar i publicista litvanskog porekla. Jedan je od vodećih ličnosti američkog ...
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CURA presents REQUIEM, the final masterpiece by the Lithuanian-born filmmaker Jonas Mekas (Semeniškiai 1922 – New York 2019). The project, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi as part of the European première of the work, is made possible thanks to the support of the Estate of Jonas Mekas, the Lithuanian Culture Institute, and Zuecca Projects in collaboration with Apalazzo Gallery and Case ...
