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Apr 3, 2019 · Jonas Mekas menginisiasi penayangan dua filem yang yang dianggap tidak layak tayang karena terbentur standar moral yang ada saat itu. Di tahun 1964 Jonas Mekas ditangkap polisi karena menayangkan Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963) dan Un Chant d’Amour (Jean Genet, 1950)((Ibid)). Dalam konteks produksi filem, wacana sinema alternatif menjadi ...
Jonas Mekas (/ ˈmiːkɑːs /; [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] Mekas's work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide. [3] Mekas was active in New York City ...
Jonas Mekas’ poetry and poetic sensibility informs all of his work. His films, videos, photos and writings are not works of conceptual art; they are direct observations, made in the here and now, moments of life being lived, sometimes poetic, sometimes mundane, mostly joyful though often tinged by the memories of lost childhood, as seen from exile. ² So-called experimental techniques are ...
Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. In 1944, he and his brother Adolfas were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Elmshorn, Germany. After the War he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz. At the end of 1949 the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York City, where they ...
Jul 24, 2024 · Poetry, ed. Julius Ziz (Vilnius: Odilė, 2021), 106. Translation by the author. Lukas Brasiskis is a Curator of Film and Video at e-flux. He is also a cocurator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023–24). He received his PhD degree in Cinema Studies from New York University in 2022. His writings on moving image are widely published, and most ...
Issue #129. September 2022. Portrait of Jonas Mekas with Bolex. Photo: Boris Lehman. Many in the art world are observing the centennial of the Lithuanian-born poet and filmmaker Jonas Mekas (1922–2019), a founder and icon of avant-garde cinema. Cultural programs, exhibits, and conferences are marking the occasion. But not everyone is celebrating.
This centennial celebration, Jonas Mekas 100!, seeks to expand global recognition of his work and encourage a deeper exploration of Mekas’ prolific contributions to cinema, film criticism, cultural organization, and, in particular, his body of poems and prose, now published in Lithuanian, French, German, English, Japanese, Hebrew, and many other languages.
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