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An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
ArtIsForYou20
This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace.
Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was shot in October 2012 in the Brooklyn loft where he lives, works and stores reels 60 years worth of film and video footage.
The piece features excerpts from the following films:
Walden (1969)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990)
This Side of Paradise (1999)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
A Letter from Greenpoint (2004)
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- published: 30 Nov 2012
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- published: 12 Oct 2009
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The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
- published: 11 Aug 2015
- views: 5439
7 min. 24 sec.
In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" and "casting director". The stars of the events in this film are Werushka and Taylor Mead.
- published: 29 Mar 2016
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"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise.
If not images some vague feeling when we're in some places; there are places in which we find ourselves -i've been in such places- where i've felt: "ah this must be like paradise; this is paradise; this is how paradise was or something like that, a little fragment of paradise".
Not only the places, i've been with friends, we have been together my friends many times and we felt, we all felt some kind of togetherness something special and revealing and we felt -ah- we felt like in paradise.
Those brief moments, those moments; And that's, maybe, what is all about:
Forget the eternity, enjoy, yes we enjoyed, those moments, those brief moments, those evenings. And there were many such evenings, many such evenings, my friends... i will never forget them, my friends."
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Jonas Mekas, 2000
- published: 29 Apr 2013
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Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN
1969, 180mins, 16mm color, available on VOD https://vimeo.com/ondemand/walden
and published on DVD through www.re-voir.com
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
With: Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Yalkut, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, Richard Foreman, John Lennon, Yoko Ono...
"Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing.... Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order." - Jonas Mekas
"Jonas Mekas's films celebrate life. They rise up against the world's overwhelming commercialism, attempting instead to revive the pleasures of friendship, a first snowfall or the return of Spring. Mekas's genius stems from his generously including the viewer in his vision of the world, allowing us to (re)discover, in a simple image, the incredible force and necessity of poetry." - Yann Beauvais
available through www.re-voir.com
- published: 22 Dec 2008
- views: 0
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who never goes anywhere without his camera. Mekas here shares his fascinating personal story and shows us around his workspace in Brooklyn, New York.
Mekas feels that he grew up in Paradise until the Soviets came: “… they brought hell, and my paradise ended.” The Russian tanks began rolling in the very same week that Mekas got his first still camera, and his first picture was thus of these Russian tanks - until a lieutenant took his camera and smashed it: “That was the beginning of my film and photography career – my first image ended up under the Russian soldier’s boot in the dust of my village.”
Even though Mekas has experienced ten years of hell during and following World War II, he does not want his movies to reflect this: “Why should I represent and show in my movies any of the hell, which we see already in life…” Mekas and his brother arrived in New York in 1947: “We came like empty sponges ready to absorb anything that was there.” After a couple of years they realized that cinema was more than the Hollywood cinema they had been exposed to back home, and the footage that Mekas had initially just made as a form of practice, was eventually transformed into his first diary film, ‘Walden.’
“Chance has it’s own logic.” In the 1960’s, when no one wanted to distribute or finance Mekas’ films, he and a group of other filmmakers – including Robert Frank – created The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, which provided them with the freedom to create whatever they wanted. This came to have a great impact on the community of independent filmmakers, as it proved that money wasn’t the most important factor when trying to make interesting movies. It was also in connection to The Film-Makers’ Cooperative that Mekas met Andy Warhol, who hung out in the loft, where the filmmakers met, and whom he later made a movie with: “I did not know him at all. There were people sitting on the floor, and he was there on the floor like everybody else. But then somebody said: “You don’t know Andy Warhol? He’s been in your loft for a month – and you don’t know him?” So I was introduced to him, and that’s how we met.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1976), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson, Kasper Bech Dyg and Jonas Mekas
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
- published: 17 Aug 2015
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Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (Lithuanian: [ˈjonɐs ˈmækɐs]; born December 24, 1922) is a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.
Biography
In 1944, Mekas left Lithuania because of war. En route, his train was stopped in Germany and he and his brother, Adolfas Mekas (1925–2011), were imprisoned in a labor camp in Elmshorn, a suburb of Hamburg, for eight months. The brothers escaped and were detained near the Danish border where they hid on a farm for two months until the end of the war. After the war, Mekas lived in displaced person camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel. From 1946 to 1948, he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz and at the end of 1949, he emigrated with his brother to the U.S., settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Two weeks after his arrival, he borrowed the money to buy his first Bolex 16mm camera and began to record moments of his life. He discovered avant-garde film at venues such as Amos Vogel’s pioneering Cinema 16, and he began curating avant-garde film screenings at Gallery East on Avenue A and Houston Street, and a Film Forum series at Carl Fisher Auditorium on 57th Street.
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2:30Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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58:20Jonas Mekas - A Walk (1990)
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23:10Jonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's Studio
Jonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's StudioJonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's Studio
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas. ArtIsForYou20 This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace. Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was shot in October 2012 in the Brooklyn loft where he lives, works and stores reels 60 years worth of film and video footage. The piece features excerpts from the following films: Walden (1969) Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990) This Side of Paradise (1999) As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) A Letter from Greenpoint (2004) Like MOCA on Facebook: http://bit.ly/MOCAFacebook Follow MOCA on Twitter: http://bit.ly/MOCATwitter +1 MOCA on Google+: http://bit.ly/MOCAGooglePlus -
1:45Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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1:49Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
Jonas Mekas: Advice to the YoungJonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.” If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.” Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014. Camera: Pierce Jackson Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015 Supported by Nordea-fonden -
7:33Jonas Mekas ‒ Salvador Dali, Happenings (1963-64)
Jonas Mekas ‒ Salvador Dali, Happenings (1963-64)Jonas Mekas ‒ Salvador Dali, Happenings (1963-64)
7 min. 24 sec. In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" and "casting director". The stars of the events in this film are Werushka and Taylor Mead. -
46:14SUSITIKIMAI 2015-01-27 Jonas Mekas
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2:55As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Paradise
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - ParadiseAs I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Paradise
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise. If not images some vague feeling when we're in some places; there are places in which we find ourselves -i've been in such places- where i've felt: "ah this must be like paradise; this is paradise; this is how paradise was or something like that, a little fragment of paradise". Not only the places, i've been with friends, we have been together my friends many times and we felt, we all felt some kind of togetherness something special and revealing and we felt -ah- we felt like in paradise. Those brief moments, those moments; And that's, maybe, what is all about: Forget the eternity, enjoy, yes we enjoyed, those moments, those brief moments, those evenings. And there were many such evenings, many such evenings, my friends... i will never forget them, my friends." As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Jonas Mekas, 2000 -
3:17Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
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3:21jonas Mekas 365 Nov' 7th film
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7:07Jonas Mekas, Walden, 1969 (excerpt)
Jonas Mekas, Walden, 1969 (excerpt)Jonas Mekas, Walden, 1969 (excerpt)
Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN 1969, 180mins, 16mm color, available on VOD https://vimeo.com/ondemand/walden and published on DVD through www.re-voir.com Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema. With: Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Yalkut, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, Richard Foreman, John Lennon, Yoko Ono... "Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing.... Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order." - Jonas Mekas "Jonas Mekas's films celebrate life. They rise up against the world's overwhelming commercialism, attempting instead to revive the pleasures of friendship, a first snowfall or the return of Spring. Mekas's genius stems from his generously including the viewer in his vision of the world, allowing us to (re)discover, in a simple image, the incredible force and necessity of poetry." - Yann Beauvais available through www.re-voir.com -
20:38The Story of Jonas Mekas
The Story of Jonas MekasThe Story of Jonas Mekas
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who never goes anywhere without his camera. Mekas here shares his fascinating personal story and shows us around his workspace in Brooklyn, New York. Mekas feels that he grew up in Paradise until the Soviets came: “… they brought hell, and my paradise ended.” The Russian tanks began rolling in the very same week that Mekas got his first still camera, and his first picture was thus of these Russian tanks - until a lieutenant took his camera and smashed it: “That was the beginning of my film and photography career – my first image ended up under the Russian soldier’s boot in the dust of my village.” Even though Mekas has experienced ten years of hell during and following World War II, he does not want his movies to reflect this: “Why should I represent and show in my movies any of the hell, which we see already in life…” Mekas and his brother arrived in New York in 1947: “We came like empty sponges ready to absorb anything that was there.” After a couple of years they realized that cinema was more than the Hollywood cinema they had been exposed to back home, and the footage that Mekas had initially just made as a form of practice, was eventually transformed into his first diary film, ‘Walden.’ “Chance has it’s own logic.” In the 1960’s, when no one wanted to distribute or finance Mekas’ films, he and a group of other filmmakers – including Robert Frank – created The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, which provided them with the freedom to create whatever they wanted. This came to have a great impact on the community of independent filmmakers, as it proved that money wasn’t the most important factor when trying to make interesting movies. It was also in connection to The Film-Makers’ Cooperative that Mekas met Andy Warhol, who hung out in the loft, where the filmmakers met, and whom he later made a movie with: “I did not know him at all. There were people sitting on the floor, and he was there on the floor like everybody else. But then somebody said: “You don’t know Andy Warhol? He’s been in your loft for a month – and you don’t know him?” So I was introduced to him, and that’s how we met.” Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1976), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014. Camera: Pierce Jackson, Kasper Bech Dyg and Jonas Mekas Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015 Supported by Nordea-fonden -
1:49Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
Jonas Mekas: Advice to the YoungJonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.” If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.” Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014. Camera: Pierce Jackson Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015 Supported by Nordea-fonden -
8:53At Home with Jonas Mekas
At Home with Jonas MekasAt Home with Jonas Mekas
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
'Jonas Mekas' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012)
Actors: Jonas Mekas (editor), William S. Burroughs (actor), Ken Jacobs (actor), Jonas Mekas (actor), Jonas Mekas (director), James Broughton (actor), Robert Frank (actor), Adolfas Mekas (actor), Oona Mekas (actress), Peter Kubelka (actor), Amy Taubin (actress), Richard Foreman (actor), Flo Jacobs (actress), Hollis Melton (actress), Friedl Bondy (actress),
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Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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Jonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's Studio
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas. ArtIsForYou20 This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace. Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was s...
published: 30 Nov 2012 -
Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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published: 12 Oct 2009 -
Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.” If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.” Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the ...
published: 11 Aug 2015 -
Jonas Mekas ‒ Salvador Dali, Happenings (1963-64)
7 min. 24 sec. In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" and "casting director". The stars of the events in this film are Werushka and Taylor Mead.
published: 29 Mar 2016 -
SUSITIKIMAI 2015-01-27 Jonas Mekas
published: 04 Nov 2015 -
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Paradise
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise. If not images some vague feeling when we're in some places; there are places in which we find ourselves -i've been in such places- where i've felt: "ah this must be like paradise; this is paradise; this is how paradise was or something like that, a little fragment of paradise". Not only the places, i've been with friends, we have been together my friends many times and we felt, we all felt some kind of togetherness something special and revealing and we felt -ah- we felt like in paradise. Those brief moments, those moments; And that's, maybe, what is all about: Forget the eternity, enjoy, yes we enjoyed, those moments, those brief moments, those evenings. And there were many such evenings, many such ...
published: 29 Apr 2013 -
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
published: 15 May 2016 -
jonas Mekas 365 Nov' 7th film
Jonas Mekas meditates on food and poetry. A great piece!
published: 14 Nov 2007 -
Jonas Mekas, Walden, 1969 (excerpt)
Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN 1969, 180mins, 16mm color, available on VOD https://vimeo.com/ondemand/walden and published on DVD through www.re-voir.com Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema. With: Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Y...
published: 22 Dec 2008 -
The Story of Jonas Mekas
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who never goes anywhere without his camera. Mekas here shares his fascinating personal story and shows us around his workspace in Brooklyn, New York. Mekas feels that he grew up in Paradise until the Soviets came: “… they brought hell, and my paradise ended.” The Russian tanks began rolling in the very same week that Mekas got his first still camera, and his first picture was thus of these Russian tanks - until a lieutenant took his camera and smashed it: “That was the beginning of my film and photography career – my first image ended up under the Russian soldier’s boot in the dust of my village.” Even though Mekas has experienced ten years of hell during and following World War II, he does not want his mo...
published: 17 Aug 2015 -
Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.” If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.” Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the ...
published: 11 Aug 2015 -
At Home with Jonas Mekas
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
published: 13 Dec 2012 -
Jonas Mekas - Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
published: 12 Aug 2014 -
Jonas Mekas - As I
A documentary about underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas in New York. directed by Alexandre Perrier & Jeremiah. Produced by Kidam www.kidam.net
published: 31 May 2010 -
Jonas Mekas I am not a filmmaker trailer
published: 09 May 2012 -
Jonas Mekas - Walden
DIARIES notes and sketches - also known as WALDEN (1969) bit.ly/walden_reels (Subtitled in six languages: French, Italian, German, Japanese, Lithuanian and Spanish.) Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. WALDEN, his first completed diary film, shot between 1964-1969, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s and a groundbreaking work of personal cinema. After nearly thirty years Jonas Mekas' "Walden" looms as a central cinematic document of daily life in the New York community of artists during one of its moments of splendor. Although Mekas is neither shocking nor confessional, he has marked every moment of this very long film with the nunaces of his own personality. In...
published: 16 Apr 2015 -
ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS II: I WAS MOVING AHEAD
ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS "WALDEN" "I WAS MOVING AHEAD..." "LETTER FROM GREENPOINT" LISBOA, 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2009 FRANCISCO ALGARIN NAVARRO, FELIX GARCIA DE VILLEGAS, MARTA MONTIANO VIDEO: CLARA SANZ AGRADECIMIENTOS: MANUEL PRAENA MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA DOC LISBOA 09
published: 27 Mar 2010 -
Retratos_ Jonas Mekas
Um filme-retrato de Jonas Mekas, registro de um jantar em sua casa, no Brooklin, NY, novembro de 2011. Retratos é uma série de filme-portraits com pessoas que, de diferentes formas, me afetam.
published: 06 Jun 2012
Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 27 Aug 2009
- views: 110165
Jonas Mekas - A Walk (1990)
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- Duration: 58:20
- Updated: 15 Sep 2014
- views: 18514
Jonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's Studio
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- Duration: 23:10
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 20218
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
ArtIsForYou20
This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renow...
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
ArtIsForYou20
This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace.
Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was shot in October 2012 in the Brooklyn loft where he lives, works and stores reels 60 years worth of film and video footage.
The piece features excerpts from the following films:
Walden (1969)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990)
This Side of Paradise (1999)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
A Letter from Greenpoint (2004)
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An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
ArtIsForYou20
This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace.
Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was shot in October 2012 in the Brooklyn loft where he lives, works and stores reels 60 years worth of film and video footage.
The piece features excerpts from the following films:
Walden (1969)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990)
This Side of Paradise (1999)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
A Letter from Greenpoint (2004)
Like MOCA on Facebook: http://bit.ly/MOCAFacebook
Follow MOCA on Twitter: http://bit.ly/MOCATwitter
+1 MOCA on Google+: http://bit.ly/MOCAGooglePlus
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 20218
Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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- Duration: 1:45
- Updated: 12 Oct 2009
- views: 22330
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https://re-voir.com/shop/fr/jonas-mekas-dvd/165-walden-dvd-3545020021880.html?search_query=walden&results;=3
https://re-voir.com/shop/fr/jonas-mekas-dvd/134-coffret-6-dvd-les-oeuvres-majeurs-de-jonas-mekas-3545020021866.html
https://wn.com/Walden_Jonas_Mekas_(Tim's_Place)
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- published: 12 Oct 2009
- views: 22330
Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
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- Duration: 1:49
- Updated: 11 Aug 2015
- views: 5439
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmak...
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas_Advice_To_The_Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
- published: 11 Aug 2015
- views: 5439
Jonas Mekas ‒ Salvador Dali, Happenings (1963-64)
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- Duration: 7:33
- Updated: 29 Mar 2016
- views: 836
7 min. 24 sec.
In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager"...
7 min. 24 sec.
In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" and "casting director". The stars of the events in this film are Werushka and Taylor Mead.
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas_‒_Salvador_Dali,_Happenings_(1963_64)
7 min. 24 sec.
In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" and "casting director". The stars of the events in this film are Werushka and Taylor Mead.
- published: 29 Mar 2016
- views: 836
SUSITIKIMAI 2015-01-27 Jonas Mekas
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 46:14
- Updated: 04 Nov 2015
- views: 77
- published: 04 Nov 2015
- views: 77
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Paradise
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:55
- Updated: 29 Apr 2013
- views: 11665
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise.
If not images some vague feeling when we're in some places; there are p...
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise.
If not images some vague feeling when we're in some places; there are places in which we find ourselves -i've been in such places- where i've felt: "ah this must be like paradise; this is paradise; this is how paradise was or something like that, a little fragment of paradise".
Not only the places, i've been with friends, we have been together my friends many times and we felt, we all felt some kind of togetherness something special and revealing and we felt -ah- we felt like in paradise.
Those brief moments, those moments; And that's, maybe, what is all about:
Forget the eternity, enjoy, yes we enjoyed, those moments, those brief moments, those evenings. And there were many such evenings, many such evenings, my friends... i will never forget them, my friends."
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Jonas Mekas, 2000
https://wn.com/As_I_Was_Moving_Ahead_Occasionally_I_Saw_Brief_Glimpses_Of_Beauty_Paradise
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise.
If not images some vague feeling when we're in some places; there are places in which we find ourselves -i've been in such places- where i've felt: "ah this must be like paradise; this is paradise; this is how paradise was or something like that, a little fragment of paradise".
Not only the places, i've been with friends, we have been together my friends many times and we felt, we all felt some kind of togetherness something special and revealing and we felt -ah- we felt like in paradise.
Those brief moments, those moments; And that's, maybe, what is all about:
Forget the eternity, enjoy, yes we enjoyed, those moments, those brief moments, those evenings. And there were many such evenings, many such evenings, my friends... i will never forget them, my friends."
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Jonas Mekas, 2000
- published: 29 Apr 2013
- views: 11665
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 15 May 2016
- views: 1112
- published: 15 May 2016
- views: 1112
jonas Mekas 365 Nov' 7th film
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 14 Nov 2007
- views: 3356
Jonas Mekas meditates on food and poetry.
A great piece!
Jonas Mekas meditates on food and poetry.
A great piece!
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas_365_Nov'_7Th_Film
Jonas Mekas, Walden, 1969 (excerpt)
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- Duration: 7:07
- Updated: 20 May 2017
- views: 0
Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN
1969, 180mins, 16mm color, available on VOD https://vimeo.com/ondemand/walden
and published on D...
Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN
1969, 180mins, 16mm color, available on VOD https://vimeo.com/ondemand/walden
and published on DVD through www.re-voir.com
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
With: Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Yalkut, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, Richard Foreman, John Lennon, Yoko Ono...
"Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing.... Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order." - Jonas Mekas
"Jonas Mekas's films celebrate life. They rise up against the world's overwhelming commercialism, attempting instead to revive the pleasures of friendship, a first snowfall or the return of Spring. Mekas's genius stems from his generously including the viewer in his vision of the world, allowing us to (re)discover, in a simple image, the incredible force and necessity of poetry." - Yann Beauvais
available through www.re-voir.com
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas,_Walden,_1969_(Excerpt)
Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN
1969, 180mins, 16mm color, available on VOD https://vimeo.com/ondemand/walden
and published on DVD through www.re-voir.com
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
With: Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Yalkut, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, Richard Foreman, John Lennon, Yoko Ono...
"Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing.... Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order." - Jonas Mekas
"Jonas Mekas's films celebrate life. They rise up against the world's overwhelming commercialism, attempting instead to revive the pleasures of friendship, a first snowfall or the return of Spring. Mekas's genius stems from his generously including the viewer in his vision of the world, allowing us to (re)discover, in a simple image, the incredible force and necessity of poetry." - Yann Beauvais
available through www.re-voir.com
- published: 22 Dec 2008
- views: 0
The Story of Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 20:38
- Updated: 19 May 2017
- views: 0
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who never goes anywhere without his camera. Mekas here shares his fascinating...
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who never goes anywhere without his camera. Mekas here shares his fascinating personal story and shows us around his workspace in Brooklyn, New York.
Mekas feels that he grew up in Paradise until the Soviets came: “… they brought hell, and my paradise ended.” The Russian tanks began rolling in the very same week that Mekas got his first still camera, and his first picture was thus of these Russian tanks - until a lieutenant took his camera and smashed it: “That was the beginning of my film and photography career – my first image ended up under the Russian soldier’s boot in the dust of my village.”
Even though Mekas has experienced ten years of hell during and following World War II, he does not want his movies to reflect this: “Why should I represent and show in my movies any of the hell, which we see already in life…” Mekas and his brother arrived in New York in 1947: “We came like empty sponges ready to absorb anything that was there.” After a couple of years they realized that cinema was more than the Hollywood cinema they had been exposed to back home, and the footage that Mekas had initially just made as a form of practice, was eventually transformed into his first diary film, ‘Walden.’
“Chance has it’s own logic.” In the 1960’s, when no one wanted to distribute or finance Mekas’ films, he and a group of other filmmakers – including Robert Frank – created The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, which provided them with the freedom to create whatever they wanted. This came to have a great impact on the community of independent filmmakers, as it proved that money wasn’t the most important factor when trying to make interesting movies. It was also in connection to The Film-Makers’ Cooperative that Mekas met Andy Warhol, who hung out in the loft, where the filmmakers met, and whom he later made a movie with: “I did not know him at all. There were people sitting on the floor, and he was there on the floor like everybody else. But then somebody said: “You don’t know Andy Warhol? He’s been in your loft for a month – and you don’t know him?” So I was introduced to him, and that’s how we met.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1976), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson, Kasper Bech Dyg and Jonas Mekas
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
https://wn.com/The_Story_Of_Jonas_Mekas
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who never goes anywhere without his camera. Mekas here shares his fascinating personal story and shows us around his workspace in Brooklyn, New York.
Mekas feels that he grew up in Paradise until the Soviets came: “… they brought hell, and my paradise ended.” The Russian tanks began rolling in the very same week that Mekas got his first still camera, and his first picture was thus of these Russian tanks - until a lieutenant took his camera and smashed it: “That was the beginning of my film and photography career – my first image ended up under the Russian soldier’s boot in the dust of my village.”
Even though Mekas has experienced ten years of hell during and following World War II, he does not want his movies to reflect this: “Why should I represent and show in my movies any of the hell, which we see already in life…” Mekas and his brother arrived in New York in 1947: “We came like empty sponges ready to absorb anything that was there.” After a couple of years they realized that cinema was more than the Hollywood cinema they had been exposed to back home, and the footage that Mekas had initially just made as a form of practice, was eventually transformed into his first diary film, ‘Walden.’
“Chance has it’s own logic.” In the 1960’s, when no one wanted to distribute or finance Mekas’ films, he and a group of other filmmakers – including Robert Frank – created The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, which provided them with the freedom to create whatever they wanted. This came to have a great impact on the community of independent filmmakers, as it proved that money wasn’t the most important factor when trying to make interesting movies. It was also in connection to The Film-Makers’ Cooperative that Mekas met Andy Warhol, who hung out in the loft, where the filmmakers met, and whom he later made a movie with: “I did not know him at all. There were people sitting on the floor, and he was there on the floor like everybody else. But then somebody said: “You don’t know Andy Warhol? He’s been in your loft for a month – and you don’t know him?” So I was introduced to him, and that’s how we met.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1976), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson, Kasper Bech Dyg and Jonas Mekas
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
- published: 17 Aug 2015
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Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
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- Duration: 1:49
- Updated: 20 May 2017
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The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmak...
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas_Advice_To_The_Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
- published: 11 Aug 2015
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At Home with Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 8:53
- Updated: 19 May 2017
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On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Rea...
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
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On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
- published: 13 Dec 2012
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Jonas Mekas - Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
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- Duration: 1:08:17
- Updated: 19 May 2017
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- published: 12 Aug 2014
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Jonas Mekas - As I
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- Duration: 17:54
- Updated: 17 May 2017
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A documentary about underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas in New York.
directed by Alexandre Perrier & Jeremiah.
Produced by Kidam
www.kidam.net
A documentary about underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas in New York.
directed by Alexandre Perrier & Jeremiah.
Produced by Kidam
www.kidam.net
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas_As_I
A documentary about underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas in New York.
directed by Alexandre Perrier & Jeremiah.
Produced by Kidam
www.kidam.net
- published: 31 May 2010
- views: 757
Jonas Mekas I am not a filmmaker trailer
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- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 19 May 2017
- views: 2223
- published: 09 May 2012
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Jonas Mekas - Walden
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- Duration: 2:18
- Updated: 20 May 2017
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DIARIES notes and sketches - also known as WALDEN (1969) bit.ly/walden_reels
(Subtitled in six languages: French, Italian, German, Japanese, Lithuanian and Span...
DIARIES notes and sketches - also known as WALDEN (1969) bit.ly/walden_reels
(Subtitled in six languages: French, Italian, German, Japanese, Lithuanian and Spanish.)
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. WALDEN, his first completed diary film, shot between 1964-1969, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s and a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
After nearly thirty years Jonas Mekas' "Walden" looms as a central cinematic document of daily life in the New York community of artists during one of its moments of splendor. Although Mekas is neither shocking nor confessional, he has marked every moment of this very long film with the nunaces of his own personality. In the grand array of characters, mostly unnamed, or identified only by a Christian name, -- although some others are internationally famous -- the only psychological portrait is that of the filmmaker himself: an exiled Lithuanian poet fascinated and tortured by his slow Americanization. The film is possessed by a nervous, staccatto rhythm that repeatedly opens out into expansive raptures.
The massive accumulation of images provided Mekas with a unique archive for constructing this visual diary, the first of many he completed. Watching it now, we can recover a sense of that place and time that no other film can give us. As a minor character, periodically passing before my friend's camera, I recognize how fragmentary and elliptical his representation of others can be, and yet these images have become for me the strongest visual indices of who I was thirty years ago. That may be the core of Mekas' art: in finding a cinematic form in which he could capture his changing moods without imposing a coherent mask of himself, he has made a work that lets others appear in their phenomenal ambiguity. --- P. Adams Sitney (1997)
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas_Walden
DIARIES notes and sketches - also known as WALDEN (1969) bit.ly/walden_reels
(Subtitled in six languages: French, Italian, German, Japanese, Lithuanian and Spanish.)
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. WALDEN, his first completed diary film, shot between 1964-1969, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s and a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
After nearly thirty years Jonas Mekas' "Walden" looms as a central cinematic document of daily life in the New York community of artists during one of its moments of splendor. Although Mekas is neither shocking nor confessional, he has marked every moment of this very long film with the nunaces of his own personality. In the grand array of characters, mostly unnamed, or identified only by a Christian name, -- although some others are internationally famous -- the only psychological portrait is that of the filmmaker himself: an exiled Lithuanian poet fascinated and tortured by his slow Americanization. The film is possessed by a nervous, staccatto rhythm that repeatedly opens out into expansive raptures.
The massive accumulation of images provided Mekas with a unique archive for constructing this visual diary, the first of many he completed. Watching it now, we can recover a sense of that place and time that no other film can give us. As a minor character, periodically passing before my friend's camera, I recognize how fragmentary and elliptical his representation of others can be, and yet these images have become for me the strongest visual indices of who I was thirty years ago. That may be the core of Mekas' art: in finding a cinematic form in which he could capture his changing moods without imposing a coherent mask of himself, he has made a work that lets others appear in their phenomenal ambiguity. --- P. Adams Sitney (1997)
- published: 16 Apr 2015
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ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS II: I WAS MOVING AHEAD
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- Duration: 20:10
- Updated: 18 May 2017
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ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS
"WALDEN" "I WAS MOVING AHEAD..." "LETTER FROM GREENPOINT"
LISBOA, 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2009
FRANCISCO ALGARIN NAVARRO, FELIX GARCIA DE ...
ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS
"WALDEN" "I WAS MOVING AHEAD..." "LETTER FROM GREENPOINT"
LISBOA, 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2009
FRANCISCO ALGARIN NAVARRO, FELIX GARCIA DE VILLEGAS, MARTA MONTIANO
VIDEO: CLARA SANZ
AGRADECIMIENTOS:
MANUEL PRAENA
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA
DOC LISBOA 09
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ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS
"WALDEN" "I WAS MOVING AHEAD..." "LETTER FROM GREENPOINT"
LISBOA, 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2009
FRANCISCO ALGARIN NAVARRO, FELIX GARCIA DE VILLEGAS, MARTA MONTIANO
VIDEO: CLARA SANZ
AGRADECIMIENTOS:
MANUEL PRAENA
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA
DOC LISBOA 09
- published: 27 Mar 2010
- views: 987
Retratos_ Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 4:11
- Updated: 08 May 2017
- views: 681
Um filme-retrato de Jonas Mekas, registro de um jantar em sua casa, no Brooklin, NY, novembro de 2011.
Retratos é uma série de filme-portraits com pessoas que, ...
Um filme-retrato de Jonas Mekas, registro de um jantar em sua casa, no Brooklin, NY, novembro de 2011.
Retratos é uma série de filme-portraits com pessoas que, de diferentes formas, me afetam.
https://wn.com/Retratos_Jonas_Mekas
Um filme-retrato de Jonas Mekas, registro de um jantar em sua casa, no Brooklin, NY, novembro de 2011.
Retratos é uma série de filme-portraits com pessoas que, de diferentes formas, me afetam.
- published: 06 Jun 2012
- views: 681
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Jonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's Studio
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas. ArtIsForYou20 This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace. Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was s...
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Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.” If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.” Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the ...
published: 11 Aug 2015 -
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Jonas Mekas interview Lucca 2008
pioneer of independent cinema Jonas Mekas' interview in Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca 2008. Interview by Cristina Nisticò, Sergio Ponzio
published: 05 Nov 2008 -
BOZAR interviews Jonas Mekas
The Lithuanian-American artist Jonas Mekas is a key figure in our new expo 'Jonas Mekas/The Fluxus Wall'. He was a pioneer of post-war avant-garde cinema. Click here for more info: http://bit.ly/FluxusWall
published: 24 Oct 2013 -
I Had Nowhere to Go - TIFF 2016 - Interview with Jonas Mekas (Episode 218)
Jonas and I talked about refugees and memory, about ambient noise and the new film about his journey “I Had Nowhere To Go” and why he’s spent a lifetime ignoring Hollywood. IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5896594/ Synopsis Internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Douglas Gordon returns to the Festival with an intimate portrait of Jonas Mekas, the legendary poet, film critic, risk-taking curator, "the godfather of the American avant-garde cinema" — and, at 93 years old, among the remaining few to have escaped and survived Nazi persecution. I Had Nowhere to Go plunges us into both a collective and individual space of memory via long, imageless stretches over which Mekas narrates, in his inimitable voice, excerpts from his memoir (which lends the film its title). An extraordinary li...
published: 27 Sep 2016 -
At Home with Jonas Mekas
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
published: 03 Apr 2014 -
Jonas Mekas 365 Films April 3, 2007
A conversation with Harmony Korine Day 93 Tuesday April 3, 2007 5 min. 35 sec.
published: 21 Jun 2007 -
Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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published: 12 Oct 2009 -
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
published: 15 May 2016 -
At Home with Jonas Mekas
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
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Underground New York - Gideon Bachmann (1968) TRAILER
Underground New York, a film by Gideon Bachmann Available on DVD at http://re-voir.com/shop/en/gideon-bachmann-dvd/709-underground-new-york.html A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce...
published: 26 Feb 2016 -
Interview // Douglas Gordon, Part 2: 'I Had Nowhere to Go', A Memoir of Jonas Mekas' Life.
Video by Berlin Art Link Productions // Videographer/Editor: Peter Cairns // Producer/Interviewer: Monica Salazar Tracing one minute in every year of filmmaker Jonas Mekas' life, Douglas Gordon's memoir-style film 'I Had Nowhere to Go' begins with a story of the first image Mekas ever made, in his native Lithuania, under the authority of Soviet soldiers. In the second part of Berlin Art Link's studio visit with Gordon, he recounts the process of filming Mekas' life story; the film is based on Mekas' published book of the same name, about his flight from Lithuania through Europe to America. Gordon reflects on the visually bare quality of 'I Had Nowhere to Go', which highlights the importance of the voice in storytelling and the trail of hidden images in Mekas' own work. Original article c...
published: 24 Apr 2017 -
Dans les Coulisses avec Meg Stuart: interview with Meg Stuart about 'Hunter'
'Dans les Coulisses avec Meg Stuart' by Les Spectacles Vivants de Centre Pompidou is a video of an interview with Meg Stuart on the occasion of the performances of her work 'Hunter' (2014) at Centre Pompidou, Paris (February 4-7, 2015). In her solo 'Hunter', choreographer Meg Stuart explores her own body as an archive populated with personal and cultural memories, ancestors and artistic heroes, fantasies and invisible forces. Discovering traces in the land of small things that linger around her body, Stuart translates them into a series of self-portraits. Experiences are cut up and spliced together on the editing table to reveal potential connections and forms, such as a cartoonesque body, a shamanist chanting ritual, or a noisy sound sculpture. Stretched onto different surfaces and ricoc...
published: 15 Apr 2015 -
ENTREVISTA CON NATHANIEL DORSKY (I)
http://elumiere.net/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Revista-Lumi%C3%A8re/115934618438625 While touring with my films in Spain this past spring, I had the pleasure to be honored with the attention of three young men who offered me the opportunity to participate in the following interview. I was touched by their earnestness, but also by sensing something out of the ordinary in their project. They seemed not of the common thread and their knowledge and respect for the subject matter was surprising and inspiring. How could they know so much about the American avant-garde. We made a date to meet in my hotel lobby on Saturday a little after breakfast. That morning, I awoke not too well and realized that soon a three hour video interview was expected. I did my best to muster up my energy and af...
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Carousel
This video is of the installation and presentation of my work during Auditions 2013, a sound residency at Khoj Studios, New Delhi, in January this year. "And as an extra added feature, you spin on the planets' carousel for free" is a two-channel video piece accompanied by an erratic and unstable sound environment created using multiple wireless devices. Different wireless signals criss-cross the room and the listener moves around the space picking up traces of sound. The signals are constantly changing and each listener possibly has a different experience of the videos as a result. ABOUT THE WORK The sound environment has been composed using recorded sound, spoken text, film soundtracks and composed sound and music. It will be heard and experienced as fragments of narrative, interruptin...
published: 23 Jul 2013 -
MeM#5 —7) Terraza (Benito González. México.) 3:54 min.
MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIETO includes a group videodance creations by different authors who agree to have their works grouped in this forum for permanent exhibition. movenmovenglish.wordpress.com MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO incluye un grupo de pieza artísticas de videodanza de diferentes autores que están de acuerdo en tener sus obras agrupadas en este foro de exhibición permanente. movimientoenmovimiento.wordpress.com ENGLISH Terraza (Benito González. Mexico.) 3:54 min. Terrace is part of the series Dirty Dances, which consists of nine choreographic pieces in video with very poor image quality, remixing some of the aesthetic and narrative concepts by Jonas Mekas, Martin Arnold, Peter Tscherkassky and George Kuchar. Screendance directed, recorded and edited by Benito González. https://vimeo.com/...
published: 09 Dec 2016 -
MM Serra talks about the films of José Rodriguez Soltero with Lynne Sachs
Puerto Rican filmmaker José Rodriguez Soltero (1943 - 2009) was a significant figure in the New York underground art scene during the mid-1960s and early 1970s. His films were frequently included in Filmmakers’ Cinematheque programs. He was featured in Film Culture and written up in Jonas Mekas’s Movie Journal column in the Village Voice, and was the friend and collaborator of Mario Montez, Charles Ludlam and Jack Smith. Here MM Serra, Executive Director of the Filmmakers Cooperative in New York City, discusses the 1960s Queer, count-culture, underground films of Rodriguez Soltero with friend and filmmaker Lynne Sachs. The Coop has recently preserved and digitized his films for the world to see! This interview was conducted in March, 2017 prior to Sachs's presentation of "Lupe" at Beta L...
published: 25 Apr 2017
Jonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's Studio
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- Duration: 23:10
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
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An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
ArtIsForYou20
This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renow...
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
ArtIsForYou20
This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace.
Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was shot in October 2012 in the Brooklyn loft where he lives, works and stores reels 60 years worth of film and video footage.
The piece features excerpts from the following films:
Walden (1969)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990)
This Side of Paradise (1999)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
A Letter from Greenpoint (2004)
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An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
ArtIsForYou20
This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace.
Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was shot in October 2012 in the Brooklyn loft where he lives, works and stores reels 60 years worth of film and video footage.
The piece features excerpts from the following films:
Walden (1969)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990)
This Side of Paradise (1999)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
A Letter from Greenpoint (2004)
Like MOCA on Facebook: http://bit.ly/MOCAFacebook
Follow MOCA on Twitter: http://bit.ly/MOCATwitter
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- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 20218
Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
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- Duration: 1:49
- Updated: 11 Aug 2015
- views: 5439
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmak...
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
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The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
- published: 11 Aug 2015
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Jonas Mekas Interview
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Jonas Mekas interview Lucca 2008
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- Updated: 05 Nov 2008
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pioneer of independent cinema Jonas Mekas' interview in Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca 2008. Interview by Cristina Nisticò, Sergio Ponzio
pioneer of independent cinema Jonas Mekas' interview in Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca 2008. Interview by Cristina Nisticò, Sergio Ponzio
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pioneer of independent cinema Jonas Mekas' interview in Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca 2008. Interview by Cristina Nisticò, Sergio Ponzio
- published: 05 Nov 2008
- views: 2101
BOZAR interviews Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 8:01
- Updated: 24 Oct 2013
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The Lithuanian-American artist Jonas Mekas is a key figure in our new expo 'Jonas Mekas/The Fluxus Wall'. He was a pioneer of post-war avant-garde cinema. Click...
The Lithuanian-American artist Jonas Mekas is a key figure in our new expo 'Jonas Mekas/The Fluxus Wall'. He was a pioneer of post-war avant-garde cinema. Click here for more info: http://bit.ly/FluxusWall
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The Lithuanian-American artist Jonas Mekas is a key figure in our new expo 'Jonas Mekas/The Fluxus Wall'. He was a pioneer of post-war avant-garde cinema. Click here for more info: http://bit.ly/FluxusWall
- published: 24 Oct 2013
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I Had Nowhere to Go - TIFF 2016 - Interview with Jonas Mekas (Episode 218)
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- Duration: 28:45
- Updated: 27 Sep 2016
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Jonas and I talked about refugees and memory, about ambient noise and the new film about his journey “I Had Nowhere To Go” and why he’s spent a lifetime ignorin...
Jonas and I talked about refugees and memory, about ambient noise and the new film about his journey “I Had Nowhere To Go” and why he’s spent a lifetime ignoring Hollywood.
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5896594/
Synopsis
Internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Douglas Gordon returns to the Festival with an intimate portrait of Jonas Mekas, the legendary poet, film critic, risk-taking curator, "the godfather of the American avant-garde cinema" — and, at 93 years old, among the remaining few to have escaped and survived Nazi persecution.
I Had Nowhere to Go plunges us into both a collective and individual space of memory via long, imageless stretches over which Mekas narrates, in his inimitable voice, excerpts from his memoir (which lends the film its title).
An extraordinary life story emerges as the film zigzags between Mekas' early years in a forced labour camp and a Displaced Person centre during WWII and his arrival in New York as a young Lithuanian émigré. With an immersive sound environment and intermittent, fleeting images that stand in evocative juxtaposition to Mekas' anecdotes, Gordon's film reveals in its subject a puckish humour that outweighs despair, and an unabated zest for life that both illuminates and softens the sadness.
A deeply moving tribute from one great artist to another and a singular work in its own right, I Had Nowhere to Go has timely resonance today as mass migratory movements are displacing millions of people throughout the world as refugees, exiles, and stateless persons. While Mekas is certainly no ordinary person, the story he tells is a profoundly humble one, as much about daily survival as it is about aspiring to accomplish so much more. Gordon, who is ingenious at activating memory and the cinematic imaginary, compellingly presents quotidian moments outside of Mekas' famous film-related activities in order to reveal the desires, impulses, melancholy, and perseverance that inform Mekas' filmmaking and infectious love of cinema.
Even when truly having nowhere to go, Mekas always saw brief glimpses of beauty as he was moving ahead.
Biography
Jonas Mekas - writer
Jonas Mekas born December 24, 1922, is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America. In 1944, Mekas left Lithuania because of war. En route, his train was stopped in Germany and he and his brother, Adolfas Mekas, were imprisoned in a labor camp in Elmshorn, a suburb of Hamburg, for eight months. The brothers escaped and were detained near the Danish border where they hid on a farm for two months until the end of the war. After the war, Mekas lived in displaced person camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel.
From 1946-48, he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz and at the end of 1949, he emigrated with his brother to the U.S., settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.
After his arrival, he borrowed the money to buy his first Bolex 16-mm camera and began to record moments of his life. He discovered avant-garde film at venues such as Amos Vogel’s pioneering Cinema 16, and he began screening his own films in 1953 at Gallery East on Avenue A and Houston Street, and a Film Forum series at Carl Fisher Auditorium on 57th Street.
In 1954, he became editor of Film Culture, and in 1958, began writing his “Movie Journal” column for The Village Voice. In 1962, he co-founded Film-Makers' Cooperative (FMC) and the Filmmaker’s Cinematheque in 1964, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films. The films and the voluminous collection of photographs and paper documents (mostly from or about avant garde film makers of the 1950-1980 period) were moved from time to time based on Mekas' ability to raise grant money to pay to house the massive collection.
He was part of the New American Cinema, with, in particular, fellow film-maker Lionel Rogosin. He was heavily involved with artists such as Andy Warhol, Nico, Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Salvador Dalí, and fellow Lithuanian George Maciunas.
In 1970, Anthology Film Archives opened on 425 Lafayette Street as a film museum, screening space, and a library, with Mekas as its director. Mekas, along with Stan Brakhage, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, James Broughton, and P. Adams Sitney, begin the ambitious Essential Cinema project at Anthology Film Archives to establish a canon of important cinematic works. Mekas' own output ranging from narrative films (Guns of the Trees, 1961) to documentaries (The Brig, 1963) and to “diaries” such as Walden (1969); Lost, Lost, Lost (1975); Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania (1972) and Zefiro torna (1992) have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world.
In 2001, he released a five-hour long diary film entitled As I Was Moving Ahead.
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Jonas and I talked about refugees and memory, about ambient noise and the new film about his journey “I Had Nowhere To Go” and why he’s spent a lifetime ignoring Hollywood.
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5896594/
Synopsis
Internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Douglas Gordon returns to the Festival with an intimate portrait of Jonas Mekas, the legendary poet, film critic, risk-taking curator, "the godfather of the American avant-garde cinema" — and, at 93 years old, among the remaining few to have escaped and survived Nazi persecution.
I Had Nowhere to Go plunges us into both a collective and individual space of memory via long, imageless stretches over which Mekas narrates, in his inimitable voice, excerpts from his memoir (which lends the film its title).
An extraordinary life story emerges as the film zigzags between Mekas' early years in a forced labour camp and a Displaced Person centre during WWII and his arrival in New York as a young Lithuanian émigré. With an immersive sound environment and intermittent, fleeting images that stand in evocative juxtaposition to Mekas' anecdotes, Gordon's film reveals in its subject a puckish humour that outweighs despair, and an unabated zest for life that both illuminates and softens the sadness.
A deeply moving tribute from one great artist to another and a singular work in its own right, I Had Nowhere to Go has timely resonance today as mass migratory movements are displacing millions of people throughout the world as refugees, exiles, and stateless persons. While Mekas is certainly no ordinary person, the story he tells is a profoundly humble one, as much about daily survival as it is about aspiring to accomplish so much more. Gordon, who is ingenious at activating memory and the cinematic imaginary, compellingly presents quotidian moments outside of Mekas' famous film-related activities in order to reveal the desires, impulses, melancholy, and perseverance that inform Mekas' filmmaking and infectious love of cinema.
Even when truly having nowhere to go, Mekas always saw brief glimpses of beauty as he was moving ahead.
Biography
Jonas Mekas - writer
Jonas Mekas born December 24, 1922, is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America. In 1944, Mekas left Lithuania because of war. En route, his train was stopped in Germany and he and his brother, Adolfas Mekas, were imprisoned in a labor camp in Elmshorn, a suburb of Hamburg, for eight months. The brothers escaped and were detained near the Danish border where they hid on a farm for two months until the end of the war. After the war, Mekas lived in displaced person camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel.
From 1946-48, he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz and at the end of 1949, he emigrated with his brother to the U.S., settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.
After his arrival, he borrowed the money to buy his first Bolex 16-mm camera and began to record moments of his life. He discovered avant-garde film at venues such as Amos Vogel’s pioneering Cinema 16, and he began screening his own films in 1953 at Gallery East on Avenue A and Houston Street, and a Film Forum series at Carl Fisher Auditorium on 57th Street.
In 1954, he became editor of Film Culture, and in 1958, began writing his “Movie Journal” column for The Village Voice. In 1962, he co-founded Film-Makers' Cooperative (FMC) and the Filmmaker’s Cinematheque in 1964, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films. The films and the voluminous collection of photographs and paper documents (mostly from or about avant garde film makers of the 1950-1980 period) were moved from time to time based on Mekas' ability to raise grant money to pay to house the massive collection.
He was part of the New American Cinema, with, in particular, fellow film-maker Lionel Rogosin. He was heavily involved with artists such as Andy Warhol, Nico, Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Salvador Dalí, and fellow Lithuanian George Maciunas.
In 1970, Anthology Film Archives opened on 425 Lafayette Street as a film museum, screening space, and a library, with Mekas as its director. Mekas, along with Stan Brakhage, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, James Broughton, and P. Adams Sitney, begin the ambitious Essential Cinema project at Anthology Film Archives to establish a canon of important cinematic works. Mekas' own output ranging from narrative films (Guns of the Trees, 1961) to documentaries (The Brig, 1963) and to “diaries” such as Walden (1969); Lost, Lost, Lost (1975); Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania (1972) and Zefiro torna (1992) have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world.
In 2001, he released a five-hour long diary film entitled As I Was Moving Ahead.
- published: 27 Sep 2016
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At Home with Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 8:54
- Updated: 03 Apr 2014
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On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Rea...
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
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On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
- published: 03 Apr 2014
- views: 1575
Jonas Mekas 365 Films April 3, 2007
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- Duration: 5:43
- Updated: 21 Jun 2007
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A conversation with Harmony Korine
Day 93 Tuesday April 3, 2007
5 min. 35 sec.
A conversation with Harmony Korine
Day 93 Tuesday April 3, 2007
5 min. 35 sec.
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A conversation with Harmony Korine
Day 93 Tuesday April 3, 2007
5 min. 35 sec.
- published: 21 Jun 2007
- views: 18460
Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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- Duration: 1:45
- Updated: 12 Oct 2009
- views: 22330
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- published: 12 Oct 2009
- views: 22330
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 15 May 2016
- views: 1112
- published: 15 May 2016
- views: 1112
At Home with Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 8:53
- Updated: 19 May 2017
- views: 0
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Rea...
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
https://wn.com/At_Home_With_Jonas_Mekas
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 0
Jonas Mekas on his latest work
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- Duration: 53:53
- Updated: 02 May 2017
- views: 248
An interview with Mary Borkowski for WKCR FM. November 2009. Jonas and Mary sat down in Brooklyn and discussed Mekas' work, his relationship with NYC, and his m...
An interview with Mary Borkowski for WKCR FM. November 2009. Jonas and Mary sat down in Brooklyn and discussed Mekas' work, his relationship with NYC, and his most recent projects, including his move into installations.
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Underground New York - Gideon Bachmann (1968) TRAILER
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- Duration: 1:28
- Updated: 20 May 2017
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Underground New York, a film by Gideon Bachmann
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A rare behind-...
Underground New York, a film by Gideon Bachmann
Available on DVD at http://re-voir.com/shop/en/gideon-bachmann-dvd/709-underground-new-york.html
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.
- Scott Hammen
With : Allen Ginsberg, Shirley Clarke, Jonas Mekas, Michelangelo Antonioni, Adolfas Mekas, George and Mike Kuchar, Bruce Connor, Carl Linder, Maurice Amar, Gerd Stern, Jud Yalkut, Andy Warhol, Brigid Berlin
Includes two bonus films :
Jonas by Gideon Bachmann
Walden (excerpt) by Jonas Mekas
Underground New York, un film de Gideon Bachmann
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New York à la fin des années soixante. Une plongée inédite dans l’« underground » new-yorkais en pleine ébullition, un moment et un lieu qui devaient changer à jamais le visage de la culture américaine. Une équipe de télévision allemande, menée par le journaliste Gideon Bachmann, explore l’épicentre de la révolution artistique, musicale, poétique et cinématographique des sixties, en interviewant les principaux acteurs du « New American Cinema » né dans les rues de New York. Sur fond de bouleversement culturel généralisé et de contestation politique croissante de la guerre du Vietnam, Bachmann s’entretient avec les principales figures du « cinéma underground », parmi lesquelles Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, les frères Kuchar et Bruce Conner. Sans oublier une visite à la Mecque de la scène artistique new-yorkaise de l’époque, la Factory d’Andy Warhol, pour interviewer le génie du Pop Art en personne.
- Scott Hammen
Avec: Allen Ginsberg, Shirley Clarke, Jonas Mekas, Michelangelo Antonioni, Adolfas Mekas, George et Mike Kuchar, Bruce Connor, Carl Linder, Maurice Amar, Gerd Stern, Jud Yalkut, Andy Warhol, Brigid Berlin
Deux films bonus inclus :
Jonas par Gideon Bachmann
Walden (excerpt) par Jonas Mekas
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Underground New York, a film by Gideon Bachmann
Available on DVD at http://re-voir.com/shop/en/gideon-bachmann-dvd/709-underground-new-york.html
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.
- Scott Hammen
With : Allen Ginsberg, Shirley Clarke, Jonas Mekas, Michelangelo Antonioni, Adolfas Mekas, George and Mike Kuchar, Bruce Connor, Carl Linder, Maurice Amar, Gerd Stern, Jud Yalkut, Andy Warhol, Brigid Berlin
Includes two bonus films :
Jonas by Gideon Bachmann
Walden (excerpt) by Jonas Mekas
Underground New York, un film de Gideon Bachmann
disponible en DVD sur http://re-voir.com/shop/fr/gideon-bachmann-dvd/709-underground-new-york-dvd.html
New York à la fin des années soixante. Une plongée inédite dans l’« underground » new-yorkais en pleine ébullition, un moment et un lieu qui devaient changer à jamais le visage de la culture américaine. Une équipe de télévision allemande, menée par le journaliste Gideon Bachmann, explore l’épicentre de la révolution artistique, musicale, poétique et cinématographique des sixties, en interviewant les principaux acteurs du « New American Cinema » né dans les rues de New York. Sur fond de bouleversement culturel généralisé et de contestation politique croissante de la guerre du Vietnam, Bachmann s’entretient avec les principales figures du « cinéma underground », parmi lesquelles Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, les frères Kuchar et Bruce Conner. Sans oublier une visite à la Mecque de la scène artistique new-yorkaise de l’époque, la Factory d’Andy Warhol, pour interviewer le génie du Pop Art en personne.
- Scott Hammen
Avec: Allen Ginsberg, Shirley Clarke, Jonas Mekas, Michelangelo Antonioni, Adolfas Mekas, George et Mike Kuchar, Bruce Connor, Carl Linder, Maurice Amar, Gerd Stern, Jud Yalkut, Andy Warhol, Brigid Berlin
Deux films bonus inclus :
Jonas par Gideon Bachmann
Walden (excerpt) par Jonas Mekas
- published: 26 Feb 2016
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Interview // Douglas Gordon, Part 2: 'I Had Nowhere to Go', A Memoir of Jonas Mekas' Life.
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- Duration: 5:32
- Updated: 20 May 2017
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Video by Berlin Art Link Productions // Videographer/Editor: Peter Cairns // Producer/Interviewer: Monica Salazar
Tracing one minute in every year of filmmaker...
Video by Berlin Art Link Productions // Videographer/Editor: Peter Cairns // Producer/Interviewer: Monica Salazar
Tracing one minute in every year of filmmaker Jonas Mekas' life, Douglas Gordon's memoir-style film 'I Had Nowhere to Go' begins with a story of the first image Mekas ever made, in his native Lithuania, under the authority of Soviet soldiers. In the second part of Berlin Art Link's studio visit with Gordon, he recounts the process of filming Mekas' life story; the film is based on Mekas' published book of the same name, about his flight from Lithuania through Europe to America. Gordon reflects on the visually bare quality of 'I Had Nowhere to Go', which highlights the importance of the voice in storytelling and the trail of hidden images in Mekas' own work.
Original article can be found on Berlin Art Link online magazine: http://bit.ly/2q4yNOK
https://wn.com/Interview_Douglas_Gordon,_Part_2_'I_Had_Nowhere_To_Go',_A_Memoir_Of_Jonas_Mekas'_Life.
Video by Berlin Art Link Productions // Videographer/Editor: Peter Cairns // Producer/Interviewer: Monica Salazar
Tracing one minute in every year of filmmaker Jonas Mekas' life, Douglas Gordon's memoir-style film 'I Had Nowhere to Go' begins with a story of the first image Mekas ever made, in his native Lithuania, under the authority of Soviet soldiers. In the second part of Berlin Art Link's studio visit with Gordon, he recounts the process of filming Mekas' life story; the film is based on Mekas' published book of the same name, about his flight from Lithuania through Europe to America. Gordon reflects on the visually bare quality of 'I Had Nowhere to Go', which highlights the importance of the voice in storytelling and the trail of hidden images in Mekas' own work.
Original article can be found on Berlin Art Link online magazine: http://bit.ly/2q4yNOK
- published: 24 Apr 2017
- views: 96
Dans les Coulisses avec Meg Stuart: interview with Meg Stuart about 'Hunter'
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- Duration: 11:06
- Updated: 19 May 2017
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'Dans les Coulisses avec Meg Stuart' by Les Spectacles Vivants de Centre Pompidou is a video of an interview with Meg Stuart on the occasion of the performances...
'Dans les Coulisses avec Meg Stuart' by Les Spectacles Vivants de Centre Pompidou is a video of an interview with Meg Stuart on the occasion of the performances of her work 'Hunter' (2014) at Centre Pompidou, Paris (February 4-7, 2015).
In her solo 'Hunter', choreographer Meg Stuart explores her own body as an archive populated with personal and cultural memories, ancestors and artistic heroes, fantasies and invisible forces. Discovering traces in the land of small things that linger around her body, Stuart translates them into a series of self-portraits. Experiences are cut up and spliced together on the editing table to reveal potential connections and forms, such as a cartoonesque body, a shamanist chanting ritual, or a noisy sound sculpture. Stretched onto different surfaces and ricocheting across media, interior states refract and resonate in a shared world.
choreography and performance: Meg Stuart
/ dramaturgy: Jeroen Peeters
/ sound design: Vincent Malstaf /
scenography: Barbara Ehnes /
costume design: Claudia Hill
/ lighting: Jan Maertens
/ video: Chris Kondek / assistant choreography: Ana Rocha / assistant scenography: Giulia Paolucci / assistant costume design: Kahori Furukawa / assistant video: Phillip Hohenwarter / technical direction: Oliver Houttekiet / stage: Gilles Roosen / production management: Eline Verzelen
thanks to Sigal Zouk, Jane Armitage, Pope Freeman, Jonas Mekas, Wanda Golonka, Abigail Child (for a part of the soundtrack of MUTINY), Uferstudios (Berlin), Ponderosa (Stolzenhagen)
production Damaged Goods (Brussels)
co-production HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), La Bâtie Festival de Genève, Gessnerallee (Zürich), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Les Spectacles Vivants - Centre Pompidou (Paris)
with special support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin)
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Président du Centre Pompidou: Alain Seban / conception et entretien: Sara Dufour / réalisation: Christian Bahier / prises de vue: Christian Bahier / son: Denis Guilhem / mixage: Ivan Gariel / infografie: Bernard Lévèque / direction de la production, service audiovisuel: Silvain Wolff, chef de service / chargée de production: Kim Levy / service de la régie des salles: Hugues Fournier-Montgieux, Said Fakhoury, Manuel Michaud, Fabrice Pleynet, Jean Michel Gauthier (régisseurs généraux), Nicolas Barbieri, Hamid Jouhdy, Cécile Baudart (régisseurs lumière), Lionel Linet, Francis Maillet, Michel Bourzeix (régisseurs son), Miguel Tudela, Patrick Sablonnières, Josselyne Laudrin (régisseurs plateau) / département du développement culturel: Katherin Weir (directrice) / service des spectacles vivants: Serge Laurent (programmateur), Sara Dufour, Delphine Le Gatt, Linus Gratte (chargés de réalisation), Sophie Meurnier (assistante)
https://wn.com/Dans_Les_Coulisses_Avec_Meg_Stuart_Interview_With_Meg_Stuart_About_'Hunter'
'Dans les Coulisses avec Meg Stuart' by Les Spectacles Vivants de Centre Pompidou is a video of an interview with Meg Stuart on the occasion of the performances of her work 'Hunter' (2014) at Centre Pompidou, Paris (February 4-7, 2015).
In her solo 'Hunter', choreographer Meg Stuart explores her own body as an archive populated with personal and cultural memories, ancestors and artistic heroes, fantasies and invisible forces. Discovering traces in the land of small things that linger around her body, Stuart translates them into a series of self-portraits. Experiences are cut up and spliced together on the editing table to reveal potential connections and forms, such as a cartoonesque body, a shamanist chanting ritual, or a noisy sound sculpture. Stretched onto different surfaces and ricocheting across media, interior states refract and resonate in a shared world.
choreography and performance: Meg Stuart
/ dramaturgy: Jeroen Peeters
/ sound design: Vincent Malstaf /
scenography: Barbara Ehnes /
costume design: Claudia Hill
/ lighting: Jan Maertens
/ video: Chris Kondek / assistant choreography: Ana Rocha / assistant scenography: Giulia Paolucci / assistant costume design: Kahori Furukawa / assistant video: Phillip Hohenwarter / technical direction: Oliver Houttekiet / stage: Gilles Roosen / production management: Eline Verzelen
thanks to Sigal Zouk, Jane Armitage, Pope Freeman, Jonas Mekas, Wanda Golonka, Abigail Child (for a part of the soundtrack of MUTINY), Uferstudios (Berlin), Ponderosa (Stolzenhagen)
production Damaged Goods (Brussels)
co-production HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), La Bâtie Festival de Genève, Gessnerallee (Zürich), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Les Spectacles Vivants - Centre Pompidou (Paris)
with special support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin)
www.damagedgoods.be
Président du Centre Pompidou: Alain Seban / conception et entretien: Sara Dufour / réalisation: Christian Bahier / prises de vue: Christian Bahier / son: Denis Guilhem / mixage: Ivan Gariel / infografie: Bernard Lévèque / direction de la production, service audiovisuel: Silvain Wolff, chef de service / chargée de production: Kim Levy / service de la régie des salles: Hugues Fournier-Montgieux, Said Fakhoury, Manuel Michaud, Fabrice Pleynet, Jean Michel Gauthier (régisseurs généraux), Nicolas Barbieri, Hamid Jouhdy, Cécile Baudart (régisseurs lumière), Lionel Linet, Francis Maillet, Michel Bourzeix (régisseurs son), Miguel Tudela, Patrick Sablonnières, Josselyne Laudrin (régisseurs plateau) / département du développement culturel: Katherin Weir (directrice) / service des spectacles vivants: Serge Laurent (programmateur), Sara Dufour, Delphine Le Gatt, Linus Gratte (chargés de réalisation), Sophie Meurnier (assistante)
- published: 15 Apr 2015
- views: 1182
ENTREVISTA CON NATHANIEL DORSKY (I)
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- Duration: 55:07
- Updated: 18 May 2017
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http://elumiere.net/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Revista-Lumi%C3%A8re/115934618438625
While touring with my films in Spain this past spring, I had the pleasu...
http://elumiere.net/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Revista-Lumi%C3%A8re/115934618438625
While touring with my films in Spain this past spring, I had the pleasure to be honored with the attention of three young men who offered me the opportunity to participate in the following interview. I was touched by their earnestness, but also by sensing something out of the ordinary in their project. They seemed not of the common thread and their knowledge and respect for the subject matter was surprising and inspiring. How could they know so much about the American avant-garde. We made a date to meet in my hotel lobby on Saturday a little after breakfast.
That morning, I awoke not too well and realized that soon a three hour video interview was expected. I did my best to muster up my energy and after a few cups of coffee and something to eat, we were all sitting around and preparing to begin. Right from the beginning our conversation drifted toward the subject of film language and what I found inspiring within the American avant-gard and in films in general. This train of thought developed in many directions. I am happy that through the lucky coincidence of all present, something that began as an interview, quickly turned into a thing more marvelous, a genuine exploration.
After doing some editing in Spain, they presented me with the most wondrous of surprises: an interview, illustrated with film clips, a little like a dream. That this all came about spontaneously and in such an ordinary and friendly way is a great joy for me. I am extremely grateful. I only ask your indulgence for my exhaustion which results in many errors of speech. I find it interesting that my hands have come to the rescue and are vital players in the communication.
Nathaniel Dorsky
***
(Parte I-IV)
ENTREVISTA CON NATHANIEL DORSKY
Francisco Algarín Navarro, Félix García de Villegas – 130’ – Video – Color
TABLA DE CONTENIDOS
PARTE I: Nueva York, años 60
Materialidad del soporte, duración e idea de plano. Alaya, Pneuma (Nathaniel Dorsky) . Comienzos del cine estructuralista. Ernie Gehr (History, Serene Velocity), Paul Sharits (Axiomatic Grannularity) · Experiencias primeras: Chumlum (Ron Rice), Stan Brakhage. La invención de un lenguaje real. Tabús de la imagen: sobreexposición, subexposición, desenfoque (Anticipation of the Night) · Caminos del bosque: Ingreen, bajo la influencia de Gregory J. Markopoulos (Twice a Man)· La Washington Square Gallery de Jonas Mekas · Proyecciones en los apartamentos: la vida (y el trabajo) en comunidad · Primer encuentro con Jerome Hiler · Formación de un grupo · La música y la sensibilidad (The Tree of Life) · La creación de una primera sintaxis: The Riddle of Lumen, de Stan Brakhage · Bad boys: Flaming Creatures, de Jack Smith · Encontrar una forma “alrededor de Brakhage” (Phil Solomon) / Encontrar una forma “a través de Brakhage” (P. Adams Sitney) · Líneas principales puramente visuales.
PARTE II: El montaje polivalente
Proyectos “sincrónicos” y proyectos “orgánicos” · Poesía y progresión de los planos · Montaje polivalente en el cine primitivo: Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov) · Sueños dentro de sueños versus montaje conceptual o paralelo en Vertov · Dziga Vertov versus Joseph Cornell · Primer encuentro con Warren Sonbert, Robert Beavers y Ken Kelman · Exploración del aspecto primordial del cine: prácticas de grupo · El hallazgo de Romance sentimentale (Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein) y Anticipation of the Night · Los orígenes de Stan Brakhage y Marie Menken · Exploraciones de la poesía · Las películas de Jerome Hiler · Descubrimientos reales frente a la llegada del video e Internet · Haircut (Andy Warhol): tabú y materialidad de la película · On the Road, de Jack Keoruac: la rectitud del mundo antiguo · ¿Es el cine estructuralista moderno? · Experiencias reforzadas de la visión · “Open montage” (P. Adams Sitney) · Etimología del montaje polivalente · El montaje polivalente de Warren Sonbert · La interpretación de los sueños de Sigmund Freud · Conexiones entre imágenes individuales y sintaxis propia · John Ford y la proyección de los sueños.
PARTE III: El montaje polivalente (II)
Meditación en Alaya y Pneuma · Articulaciones en forma de “ramilletes” · Motivos y objetos de estudio · El grano de arena y el grano de película · La idea de “antorcha” · El asunto del montaje: de lo múltiple a lo simple · Mundo emocional y abstracción · La imagen no conceptual · La idea frente a la psique · El arte occidental y “la idea de algo” · Conversión de los objetos en presencias · “The Place is the film” · El proyecto de Triste · “Present tense” o presente cinemático· Variations (Nathaniel Dorsky) · Películas-semilla / películas–flor · Procesos de expansión del plano · El espacio paralelo del plano · Relaciones de montaje (Eisenstein) · Ideas secund
https://wn.com/Entrevista_Con_Nathaniel_Dorsky_(I)
http://elumiere.net/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Revista-Lumi%C3%A8re/115934618438625
While touring with my films in Spain this past spring, I had the pleasure to be honored with the attention of three young men who offered me the opportunity to participate in the following interview. I was touched by their earnestness, but also by sensing something out of the ordinary in their project. They seemed not of the common thread and their knowledge and respect for the subject matter was surprising and inspiring. How could they know so much about the American avant-garde. We made a date to meet in my hotel lobby on Saturday a little after breakfast.
That morning, I awoke not too well and realized that soon a three hour video interview was expected. I did my best to muster up my energy and after a few cups of coffee and something to eat, we were all sitting around and preparing to begin. Right from the beginning our conversation drifted toward the subject of film language and what I found inspiring within the American avant-gard and in films in general. This train of thought developed in many directions. I am happy that through the lucky coincidence of all present, something that began as an interview, quickly turned into a thing more marvelous, a genuine exploration.
After doing some editing in Spain, they presented me with the most wondrous of surprises: an interview, illustrated with film clips, a little like a dream. That this all came about spontaneously and in such an ordinary and friendly way is a great joy for me. I am extremely grateful. I only ask your indulgence for my exhaustion which results in many errors of speech. I find it interesting that my hands have come to the rescue and are vital players in the communication.
Nathaniel Dorsky
***
(Parte I-IV)
ENTREVISTA CON NATHANIEL DORSKY
Francisco Algarín Navarro, Félix García de Villegas – 130’ – Video – Color
TABLA DE CONTENIDOS
PARTE I: Nueva York, años 60
Materialidad del soporte, duración e idea de plano. Alaya, Pneuma (Nathaniel Dorsky) . Comienzos del cine estructuralista. Ernie Gehr (History, Serene Velocity), Paul Sharits (Axiomatic Grannularity) · Experiencias primeras: Chumlum (Ron Rice), Stan Brakhage. La invención de un lenguaje real. Tabús de la imagen: sobreexposición, subexposición, desenfoque (Anticipation of the Night) · Caminos del bosque: Ingreen, bajo la influencia de Gregory J. Markopoulos (Twice a Man)· La Washington Square Gallery de Jonas Mekas · Proyecciones en los apartamentos: la vida (y el trabajo) en comunidad · Primer encuentro con Jerome Hiler · Formación de un grupo · La música y la sensibilidad (The Tree of Life) · La creación de una primera sintaxis: The Riddle of Lumen, de Stan Brakhage · Bad boys: Flaming Creatures, de Jack Smith · Encontrar una forma “alrededor de Brakhage” (Phil Solomon) / Encontrar una forma “a través de Brakhage” (P. Adams Sitney) · Líneas principales puramente visuales.
PARTE II: El montaje polivalente
Proyectos “sincrónicos” y proyectos “orgánicos” · Poesía y progresión de los planos · Montaje polivalente en el cine primitivo: Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov) · Sueños dentro de sueños versus montaje conceptual o paralelo en Vertov · Dziga Vertov versus Joseph Cornell · Primer encuentro con Warren Sonbert, Robert Beavers y Ken Kelman · Exploración del aspecto primordial del cine: prácticas de grupo · El hallazgo de Romance sentimentale (Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein) y Anticipation of the Night · Los orígenes de Stan Brakhage y Marie Menken · Exploraciones de la poesía · Las películas de Jerome Hiler · Descubrimientos reales frente a la llegada del video e Internet · Haircut (Andy Warhol): tabú y materialidad de la película · On the Road, de Jack Keoruac: la rectitud del mundo antiguo · ¿Es el cine estructuralista moderno? · Experiencias reforzadas de la visión · “Open montage” (P. Adams Sitney) · Etimología del montaje polivalente · El montaje polivalente de Warren Sonbert · La interpretación de los sueños de Sigmund Freud · Conexiones entre imágenes individuales y sintaxis propia · John Ford y la proyección de los sueños.
PARTE III: El montaje polivalente (II)
Meditación en Alaya y Pneuma · Articulaciones en forma de “ramilletes” · Motivos y objetos de estudio · El grano de arena y el grano de película · La idea de “antorcha” · El asunto del montaje: de lo múltiple a lo simple · Mundo emocional y abstracción · La imagen no conceptual · La idea frente a la psique · El arte occidental y “la idea de algo” · Conversión de los objetos en presencias · “The Place is the film” · El proyecto de Triste · “Present tense” o presente cinemático· Variations (Nathaniel Dorsky) · Películas-semilla / películas–flor · Procesos de expansión del plano · El espacio paralelo del plano · Relaciones de montaje (Eisenstein) · Ideas secund
- published: 30 Sep 2011
- views: 6362
Book edited with recent work from Veronica Casellas Jimenez
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- Duration: 1:10
- Updated: 16 Apr 2017
- views: 57
Book edited with recent work from Veronica Casellas Jimenez.
Sound: Banjolele and maracas by Veronica Casellas Jimenez
Voice: the wonderful, Jonas Mekas in an...
Book edited with recent work from Veronica Casellas Jimenez.
Sound: Banjolele and maracas by Veronica Casellas Jimenez
Voice: the wonderful, Jonas Mekas in an interview
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Carousel
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- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 30 Apr 2017
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This video is of the installation and presentation of my work during Auditions 2013, a sound residency at Khoj Studios, New Delhi, in January this year.
"And a...
This video is of the installation and presentation of my work during Auditions 2013, a sound residency at Khoj Studios, New Delhi, in January this year.
"And as an extra added feature, you spin on the planets' carousel for free" is a two-channel video piece accompanied by an erratic and unstable sound environment created using multiple wireless devices. Different wireless signals criss-cross the room and the listener moves around the space picking up traces of sound. The signals are constantly changing and each listener possibly has a different experience of the videos as a result.
ABOUT THE WORK
The sound environment has been composed using recorded sound, spoken text, film soundtracks and composed sound and music. It will be heard and experienced as fragments of narrative, interrupting and interfering with each other, and at times altogether disappearing. [Some of the tracks themselves have been made without editing; structures for real time and not always its manipulation were explored in this residency.]
This will hopefully produce variations and instabilities around ideas of spectacle—into which you will enter—and the peculiar landscapes of entertainment and consumption that we participate in. "The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality" , and Snow City is a winter wonderland in the heart of Bangalore - a massive theme park covering 12,500sq.ft with temperatures maintained at subzero degrees centigrade. "Entire area is filled with snow made out of water and air, which is eco friendly and edible too."
The circus with its "enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus" is almost tragic in its scale and obsolescence. Here, it is also an ode to Jonas Mekas’ 1966 film, Notes On The Circus, an in-camera edited diary-film on the extravagant outtakes of the circus. This video was made on the last day of Gemini Circus’ Bangalore show in 2012, very close to Snow City, on Parade Ground.
A list of possible sounds in the space includes:
1. Recordings of Gemini Circus in Bangalore, afternoon show, February 2012
2. Theme Song from Barbarella, 1968, dir. Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda, based on the comic book series Barbarella, by Jean-Claude Forest
3. Theme music from The Circus, 1928, Charlie Chaplin’s silent film, for which he composed a new musical score in 1967
4. Extracts from La Societe du Spectacle, 1973, by Guy Debord
5. Remnants of a conversation with Dasharath, a former trapeze artist and trainer with Gemini Circus. Dasharath is originally from Manila, joined the circus in the 1940s, lost two siblings to a circus that got left behind in Pakistan during Partition, and subsequently lost his passport and has remained in India ever since
6. A short interview with an event manager from Snow City, Bangalore, August 2012
7. Harmonica
8. Music box
9. Guitar strings
10. Xylophone
11. Snow City DJ mix
NOTE: The title of the piece is from "Here", a poem by Wislawa Szymborska.
Some text in this write-up has been excerpted from Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, and the Snow City website http://snowcityblr.com
https://wn.com/Carousel
This video is of the installation and presentation of my work during Auditions 2013, a sound residency at Khoj Studios, New Delhi, in January this year.
"And as an extra added feature, you spin on the planets' carousel for free" is a two-channel video piece accompanied by an erratic and unstable sound environment created using multiple wireless devices. Different wireless signals criss-cross the room and the listener moves around the space picking up traces of sound. The signals are constantly changing and each listener possibly has a different experience of the videos as a result.
ABOUT THE WORK
The sound environment has been composed using recorded sound, spoken text, film soundtracks and composed sound and music. It will be heard and experienced as fragments of narrative, interrupting and interfering with each other, and at times altogether disappearing. [Some of the tracks themselves have been made without editing; structures for real time and not always its manipulation were explored in this residency.]
This will hopefully produce variations and instabilities around ideas of spectacle—into which you will enter—and the peculiar landscapes of entertainment and consumption that we participate in. "The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality" , and Snow City is a winter wonderland in the heart of Bangalore - a massive theme park covering 12,500sq.ft with temperatures maintained at subzero degrees centigrade. "Entire area is filled with snow made out of water and air, which is eco friendly and edible too."
The circus with its "enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus" is almost tragic in its scale and obsolescence. Here, it is also an ode to Jonas Mekas’ 1966 film, Notes On The Circus, an in-camera edited diary-film on the extravagant outtakes of the circus. This video was made on the last day of Gemini Circus’ Bangalore show in 2012, very close to Snow City, on Parade Ground.
A list of possible sounds in the space includes:
1. Recordings of Gemini Circus in Bangalore, afternoon show, February 2012
2. Theme Song from Barbarella, 1968, dir. Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda, based on the comic book series Barbarella, by Jean-Claude Forest
3. Theme music from The Circus, 1928, Charlie Chaplin’s silent film, for which he composed a new musical score in 1967
4. Extracts from La Societe du Spectacle, 1973, by Guy Debord
5. Remnants of a conversation with Dasharath, a former trapeze artist and trainer with Gemini Circus. Dasharath is originally from Manila, joined the circus in the 1940s, lost two siblings to a circus that got left behind in Pakistan during Partition, and subsequently lost his passport and has remained in India ever since
6. A short interview with an event manager from Snow City, Bangalore, August 2012
7. Harmonica
8. Music box
9. Guitar strings
10. Xylophone
11. Snow City DJ mix
NOTE: The title of the piece is from "Here", a poem by Wislawa Szymborska.
Some text in this write-up has been excerpted from Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, and the Snow City website http://snowcityblr.com
- published: 23 Jul 2013
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MeM#5 —7) Terraza (Benito González. México.) 3:54 min.
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- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 08 May 2017
- views: 17
MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIETO includes a group videodance creations by different authors who agree to have their works grouped in this forum for permanent exhibition....
MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIETO includes a group videodance creations by different authors who agree to have their works grouped in this forum for permanent exhibition.
movenmovenglish.wordpress.com
MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO incluye un grupo de pieza artísticas de videodanza de diferentes autores que están de acuerdo en tener sus obras agrupadas en este foro de exhibición permanente.
movimientoenmovimiento.wordpress.com
ENGLISH
Terraza (Benito González. Mexico.) 3:54 min.
Terrace is part of the series Dirty Dances, which consists of nine choreographic pieces in video with very poor image quality, remixing some of the aesthetic and narrative concepts by Jonas Mekas, Martin Arnold, Peter Tscherkassky and George Kuchar.
Screendance directed, recorded and edited by Benito González.
https://vimeo.com/benitogo
https://movenmovenglish.wordpress.com/mem5-7-terraza/
Festivals
RIFF Festival 2016, Norway.
SPANISH
Terraza (Benito González. México.) 3:54 min.
Terraza forma parte de la serie Dirty Dances, la cual consta de nueve trabajos coreográficos en video con ínfima calidad de imagen, re-mezclando algunos de los conceptos estéticos y narrativos de Jonas Mekas, Martin Arnold, Peter Tscherkassky y George Kuchar.
Pieza dirigida, grabada y editada por Benito González.
https://vimeo.com/benitogo
https://movimientoenmovimiento.wordpress.com/mem5-7-terraza/
Festivales
RIFF Festival 2016, Noruega.
https://wn.com/Mem_5_—7)_Terraza_(Benito_González._México.)_3_54_Min.
MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIETO includes a group videodance creations by different authors who agree to have their works grouped in this forum for permanent exhibition.
movenmovenglish.wordpress.com
MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO incluye un grupo de pieza artísticas de videodanza de diferentes autores que están de acuerdo en tener sus obras agrupadas en este foro de exhibición permanente.
movimientoenmovimiento.wordpress.com
ENGLISH
Terraza (Benito González. Mexico.) 3:54 min.
Terrace is part of the series Dirty Dances, which consists of nine choreographic pieces in video with very poor image quality, remixing some of the aesthetic and narrative concepts by Jonas Mekas, Martin Arnold, Peter Tscherkassky and George Kuchar.
Screendance directed, recorded and edited by Benito González.
https://vimeo.com/benitogo
https://movenmovenglish.wordpress.com/mem5-7-terraza/
Festivals
RIFF Festival 2016, Norway.
SPANISH
Terraza (Benito González. México.) 3:54 min.
Terraza forma parte de la serie Dirty Dances, la cual consta de nueve trabajos coreográficos en video con ínfima calidad de imagen, re-mezclando algunos de los conceptos estéticos y narrativos de Jonas Mekas, Martin Arnold, Peter Tscherkassky y George Kuchar.
Pieza dirigida, grabada y editada por Benito González.
https://vimeo.com/benitogo
https://movimientoenmovimiento.wordpress.com/mem5-7-terraza/
Festivales
RIFF Festival 2016, Noruega.
- published: 09 Dec 2016
- views: 17
MM Serra talks about the films of José Rodriguez Soltero with Lynne Sachs
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- Duration: 12:13
- Updated: 17 May 2017
- views: 60
Puerto Rican filmmaker José Rodriguez Soltero (1943 - 2009) was a significant figure in the New York underground art scene during the mid-1960s and early 1970s....
Puerto Rican filmmaker José Rodriguez Soltero (1943 - 2009) was a significant figure in the New York underground art scene during the mid-1960s and early 1970s. His films were frequently included in Filmmakers’ Cinematheque programs. He was featured in Film Culture and written up in Jonas Mekas’s Movie Journal column in the Village Voice, and was the friend and collaborator of Mario Montez, Charles Ludlam and Jack Smith.
Here MM Serra, Executive Director of the Filmmakers Cooperative in New York City, discusses the 1960s Queer, count-culture, underground films of Rodriguez Soltero with friend and filmmaker Lynne Sachs. The Coop has recently preserved and digitized his films for the world to see! This interview was conducted in March, 2017 prior to Sachs's presentation of "Lupe" at Beta Local (www.betalocal.org) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which may be (we are not sure) the first screening of the film in its entirety in the filmmaker's "mother" country.
"Lupe" (1966 – 16mm, color, sound – 49:05 ) by José Rodriguez Soltero is an underground classic of the stature of Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures", Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio Rising", George Kuchar's "Hold Me While I’m Naked", or Andy Warhol's "The Chelsea Girls". It is ostensibly a biopic of Lupe Velez inspired by Kenneth Anger’s sketch of the Mexican spitfire in Hollywood Babylon and, stylistically, by Von Sternberg’s Marlene Dietrich vehicles. Rodriguez Soltero takes some liberties with the facts and produces a color-saturated, gorgeous dime-store baroque that tells of Lupe’s rise from whoredom to stardom, her fall into fractured romance and suicide, and her ascension into the spirit world. It is consistently inventive and surprising, and wrapped in a dense soundtrack that combines, Elvis, Cuban boleros, Spanish flamenco, The Supremes, and Vivaldi. It features some of the main players of the Ridiculous Theatrical Playhouse (Charles Ludlam plays a keen lesbian seducer and Lola Pashalinsky, Lupe’s maid). Mario Montez never looked better; no wonder this was his favorite film. Whether they know it or not, Pedro Almodovar, Vivienne Dick, and Bruce LaBruce have a godfather in José Rodriguez Soltero.(Juan Suarez )
For more information on the films of Jose Rodriguez Soltero, contact the NY Filmmakers Cooperative at 212 267 5665 or http://film-makerscoop.com/.
Many thanks to the National Film Preservation Foundation.
https://wn.com/Mm_Serra_Talks_About_The_Films_Of_José_Rodriguez_Soltero_With_Lynne_Sachs
Puerto Rican filmmaker José Rodriguez Soltero (1943 - 2009) was a significant figure in the New York underground art scene during the mid-1960s and early 1970s. His films were frequently included in Filmmakers’ Cinematheque programs. He was featured in Film Culture and written up in Jonas Mekas’s Movie Journal column in the Village Voice, and was the friend and collaborator of Mario Montez, Charles Ludlam and Jack Smith.
Here MM Serra, Executive Director of the Filmmakers Cooperative in New York City, discusses the 1960s Queer, count-culture, underground films of Rodriguez Soltero with friend and filmmaker Lynne Sachs. The Coop has recently preserved and digitized his films for the world to see! This interview was conducted in March, 2017 prior to Sachs's presentation of "Lupe" at Beta Local (www.betalocal.org) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which may be (we are not sure) the first screening of the film in its entirety in the filmmaker's "mother" country.
"Lupe" (1966 – 16mm, color, sound – 49:05 ) by José Rodriguez Soltero is an underground classic of the stature of Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures", Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio Rising", George Kuchar's "Hold Me While I’m Naked", or Andy Warhol's "The Chelsea Girls". It is ostensibly a biopic of Lupe Velez inspired by Kenneth Anger’s sketch of the Mexican spitfire in Hollywood Babylon and, stylistically, by Von Sternberg’s Marlene Dietrich vehicles. Rodriguez Soltero takes some liberties with the facts and produces a color-saturated, gorgeous dime-store baroque that tells of Lupe’s rise from whoredom to stardom, her fall into fractured romance and suicide, and her ascension into the spirit world. It is consistently inventive and surprising, and wrapped in a dense soundtrack that combines, Elvis, Cuban boleros, Spanish flamenco, The Supremes, and Vivaldi. It features some of the main players of the Ridiculous Theatrical Playhouse (Charles Ludlam plays a keen lesbian seducer and Lola Pashalinsky, Lupe’s maid). Mario Montez never looked better; no wonder this was his favorite film. Whether they know it or not, Pedro Almodovar, Vivienne Dick, and Bruce LaBruce have a godfather in José Rodriguez Soltero.(Juan Suarez )
For more information on the films of Jose Rodriguez Soltero, contact the NY Filmmakers Cooperative at 212 267 5665 or http://film-makerscoop.com/.
Many thanks to the National Film Preservation Foundation.
- published: 25 Apr 2017
- views: 60
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Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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Jonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's Studio
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas. ArtIsForYou20 This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace. Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was s...
published: 30 Nov 2012 -
Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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published: 12 Oct 2009 -
Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.” If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.” Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the ...
published: 11 Aug 2015 -
Jonas Mekas ‒ Salvador Dali, Happenings (1963-64)
7 min. 24 sec. In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" and "casting director". The stars of the events in this film are Werushka and Taylor Mead.
published: 29 Mar 2016 -
SUSITIKIMAI 2015-01-27 Jonas Mekas
published: 04 Nov 2015 -
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Paradise
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise. If not images some vague feeling when we're in some places; there are places in which we find ourselves -i've been in such places- where i've felt: "ah this must be like paradise; this is paradise; this is how paradise was or something like that, a little fragment of paradise". Not only the places, i've been with friends, we have been together my friends many times and we felt, we all felt some kind of togetherness something special and revealing and we felt -ah- we felt like in paradise. Those brief moments, those moments; And that's, maybe, what is all about: Forget the eternity, enjoy, yes we enjoyed, those moments, those brief moments, those evenings. And there were many such evenings, many such ...
published: 29 Apr 2013 -
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
published: 15 May 2016 -
jonas Mekas 365 Nov' 7th film
Jonas Mekas meditates on food and poetry. A great piece!
published: 14 Nov 2007 -
Jonas Mekas, Walden, 1969 (excerpt)
Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN 1969, 180mins, 16mm color, available on VOD https://vimeo.com/ondemand/walden and published on DVD through www.re-voir.com Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema. With: Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Y...
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The Story of Jonas Mekas
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who never goes anywhere without his camera. Mekas here shares his fascinating personal story and shows us around his workspace in Brooklyn, New York. Mekas feels that he grew up in Paradise until the Soviets came: “… they brought hell, and my paradise ended.” The Russian tanks began rolling in the very same week that Mekas got his first still camera, and his first picture was thus of these Russian tanks - until a lieutenant took his camera and smashed it: “That was the beginning of my film and photography career – my first image ended up under the Russian soldier’s boot in the dust of my village.” Even though Mekas has experienced ten years of hell during and following World War II, he does not want his mo...
published: 17 Aug 2015 -
Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.” If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.” Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the ...
published: 11 Aug 2015 -
At Home with Jonas Mekas
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
published: 13 Dec 2012 -
Jonas Mekas - Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
published: 12 Aug 2014 -
Jonas Mekas - As I
A documentary about underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas in New York. directed by Alexandre Perrier & Jeremiah. Produced by Kidam www.kidam.net
published: 31 May 2010 -
Jonas Mekas I am not a filmmaker trailer
published: 09 May 2012 -
Jonas Mekas - Walden
DIARIES notes and sketches - also known as WALDEN (1969) bit.ly/walden_reels (Subtitled in six languages: French, Italian, German, Japanese, Lithuanian and Spanish.) Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. WALDEN, his first completed diary film, shot between 1964-1969, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s and a groundbreaking work of personal cinema. After nearly thirty years Jonas Mekas' "Walden" looms as a central cinematic document of daily life in the New York community of artists during one of its moments of splendor. Although Mekas is neither shocking nor confessional, he has marked every moment of this very long film with the nunaces of his own personality. In...
published: 16 Apr 2015 -
ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS II: I WAS MOVING AHEAD
ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS "WALDEN" "I WAS MOVING AHEAD..." "LETTER FROM GREENPOINT" LISBOA, 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2009 FRANCISCO ALGARIN NAVARRO, FELIX GARCIA DE VILLEGAS, MARTA MONTIANO VIDEO: CLARA SANZ AGRADECIMIENTOS: MANUEL PRAENA MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA DOC LISBOA 09
published: 27 Mar 2010 -
Retratos_ Jonas Mekas
Um filme-retrato de Jonas Mekas, registro de um jantar em sua casa, no Brooklin, NY, novembro de 2011. Retratos é uma série de filme-portraits com pessoas que, de diferentes formas, me afetam.
published: 06 Jun 2012
Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 27 Aug 2009
- views: 110165
Jonas Mekas - A Walk (1990)
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- Duration: 58:20
- Updated: 15 Sep 2014
- views: 18514
Jonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's Studio
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- Duration: 23:10
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 20218
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
ArtIsForYou20
This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renow...
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
ArtIsForYou20
This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace.
Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was shot in October 2012 in the Brooklyn loft where he lives, works and stores reels 60 years worth of film and video footage.
The piece features excerpts from the following films:
Walden (1969)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990)
This Side of Paradise (1999)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
A Letter from Greenpoint (2004)
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An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
ArtIsForYou20
This program serves as an introduction to the work of Jonas Mekas, renowned co-founder of Anthology Film Archives. In his films, he strives to capture the essence of fleeting, ordinary moments - the poetry of everyday life. Now 89, he still films every day, and he never throws anything away. Over time, he has amassed an extensive archive of both film and video, which he edits into lyrical, diaristic films and also re-prints as photographic artworks. In this interview, he explains why and how he films, and shows us around his home and workspace.
Released alongside major presentations of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, BFI Southbank and Centre Pompidou, this exclusive interview with Jonas Mekas was shot in October 2012 in the Brooklyn loft where he lives, works and stores reels 60 years worth of film and video footage.
The piece features excerpts from the following films:
Walden (1969)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990)
This Side of Paradise (1999)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
A Letter from Greenpoint (2004)
Like MOCA on Facebook: http://bit.ly/MOCAFacebook
Follow MOCA on Twitter: http://bit.ly/MOCATwitter
+1 MOCA on Google+: http://bit.ly/MOCAGooglePlus
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 20218
Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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- Duration: 1:45
- Updated: 12 Oct 2009
- views: 22330
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https://re-voir.com/shop/fr/jonas-mekas-dvd/134-coff...
https://re-voir.com/shop/fr/jonas-mekas-dvd/165-walden-dvd-3545020021880.html?search_query=walden&results;=3
https://re-voir.com/shop/fr/jonas-mekas-dvd/134-coffret-6-dvd-les-oeuvres-majeurs-de-jonas-mekas-3545020021866.html
https://wn.com/Walden_Jonas_Mekas_(Tim's_Place)
https://re-voir.com/shop/fr/jonas-mekas-dvd/165-walden-dvd-3545020021880.html?search_query=walden&results;=3
https://re-voir.com/shop/fr/jonas-mekas-dvd/134-coffret-6-dvd-les-oeuvres-majeurs-de-jonas-mekas-3545020021866.html
- published: 12 Oct 2009
- views: 22330
Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
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- Duration: 1:49
- Updated: 11 Aug 2015
- views: 5439
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmak...
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas_Advice_To_The_Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
- published: 11 Aug 2015
- views: 5439
Jonas Mekas ‒ Salvador Dali, Happenings (1963-64)
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- Duration: 7:33
- Updated: 29 Mar 2016
- views: 836
7 min. 24 sec.
In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager"...
7 min. 24 sec.
In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" and "casting director". The stars of the events in this film are Werushka and Taylor Mead.
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas_‒_Salvador_Dali,_Happenings_(1963_64)
7 min. 24 sec.
In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" and "casting director". The stars of the events in this film are Werushka and Taylor Mead.
- published: 29 Mar 2016
- views: 836
SUSITIKIMAI 2015-01-27 Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 46:14
- Updated: 04 Nov 2015
- views: 77
- published: 04 Nov 2015
- views: 77
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Paradise
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- Duration: 2:55
- Updated: 29 Apr 2013
- views: 11665
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise.
If not images some vague feeling when we're in some places; there are p...
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise.
If not images some vague feeling when we're in some places; there are places in which we find ourselves -i've been in such places- where i've felt: "ah this must be like paradise; this is paradise; this is how paradise was or something like that, a little fragment of paradise".
Not only the places, i've been with friends, we have been together my friends many times and we felt, we all felt some kind of togetherness something special and revealing and we felt -ah- we felt like in paradise.
Those brief moments, those moments; And that's, maybe, what is all about:
Forget the eternity, enjoy, yes we enjoyed, those moments, those brief moments, those evenings. And there were many such evenings, many such evenings, my friends... i will never forget them, my friends."
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Jonas Mekas, 2000
https://wn.com/As_I_Was_Moving_Ahead_Occasionally_I_Saw_Brief_Glimpses_Of_Beauty_Paradise
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise.
If not images some vague feeling when we're in some places; there are places in which we find ourselves -i've been in such places- where i've felt: "ah this must be like paradise; this is paradise; this is how paradise was or something like that, a little fragment of paradise".
Not only the places, i've been with friends, we have been together my friends many times and we felt, we all felt some kind of togetherness something special and revealing and we felt -ah- we felt like in paradise.
Those brief moments, those moments; And that's, maybe, what is all about:
Forget the eternity, enjoy, yes we enjoyed, those moments, those brief moments, those evenings. And there were many such evenings, many such evenings, my friends... i will never forget them, my friends."
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Jonas Mekas, 2000
- published: 29 Apr 2013
- views: 11665
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 15 May 2016
- views: 1112
- published: 15 May 2016
- views: 1112
jonas Mekas 365 Nov' 7th film
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 14 Nov 2007
- views: 3356
Jonas Mekas meditates on food and poetry.
A great piece!
Jonas Mekas meditates on food and poetry.
A great piece!
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas_365_Nov'_7Th_Film
Jonas Mekas, Walden, 1969 (excerpt)
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- Duration: 7:07
- Updated: 20 May 2017
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Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN
1969, 180mins, 16mm color, available on VOD https://vimeo.com/ondemand/walden
and published on D...
Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN
1969, 180mins, 16mm color, available on VOD https://vimeo.com/ondemand/walden
and published on DVD through www.re-voir.com
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
With: Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Yalkut, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, Richard Foreman, John Lennon, Yoko Ono...
"Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing.... Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order." - Jonas Mekas
"Jonas Mekas's films celebrate life. They rise up against the world's overwhelming commercialism, attempting instead to revive the pleasures of friendship, a first snowfall or the return of Spring. Mekas's genius stems from his generously including the viewer in his vision of the world, allowing us to (re)discover, in a simple image, the incredible force and necessity of poetry." - Yann Beauvais
available through www.re-voir.com
https://wn.com/Jonas_Mekas,_Walden,_1969_(Excerpt)
Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN
1969, 180mins, 16mm color, available on VOD https://vimeo.com/ondemand/walden
and published on DVD through www.re-voir.com
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
With: Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Yalkut, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, Richard Foreman, John Lennon, Yoko Ono...
"Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing.... Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order." - Jonas Mekas
"Jonas Mekas's films celebrate life. They rise up against the world's overwhelming commercialism, attempting instead to revive the pleasures of friendship, a first snowfall or the return of Spring. Mekas's genius stems from his generously including the viewer in his vision of the world, allowing us to (re)discover, in a simple image, the incredible force and necessity of poetry." - Yann Beauvais
available through www.re-voir.com
- published: 22 Dec 2008
- views: 0
The Story of Jonas Mekas
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- Duration: 20:38
- Updated: 19 May 2017
- views: 0
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who never goes anywhere without his camera. Mekas here shares his fascinating...
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who never goes anywhere without his camera. Mekas here shares his fascinating personal story and shows us around his workspace in Brooklyn, New York.
Mekas feels that he grew up in Paradise until the Soviets came: “… they brought hell, and my paradise ended.” The Russian tanks began rolling in the very same week that Mekas got his first still camera, and his first picture was thus of these Russian tanks - until a lieutenant took his camera and smashed it: “That was the beginning of my film and photography career – my first image ended up under the Russian soldier’s boot in the dust of my village.”
Even though Mekas has experienced ten years of hell during and following World War II, he does not want his movies to reflect this: “Why should I represent and show in my movies any of the hell, which we see already in life…” Mekas and his brother arrived in New York in 1947: “We came like empty sponges ready to absorb anything that was there.” After a couple of years they realized that cinema was more than the Hollywood cinema they had been exposed to back home, and the footage that Mekas had initially just made as a form of practice, was eventually transformed into his first diary film, ‘Walden.’
“Chance has it’s own logic.” In the 1960’s, when no one wanted to distribute or finance Mekas’ films, he and a group of other filmmakers – including Robert Frank – created The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, which provided them with the freedom to create whatever they wanted. This came to have a great impact on the community of independent filmmakers, as it proved that money wasn’t the most important factor when trying to make interesting movies. It was also in connection to The Film-Makers’ Cooperative that Mekas met Andy Warhol, who hung out in the loft, where the filmmakers met, and whom he later made a movie with: “I did not know him at all. There were people sitting on the floor, and he was there on the floor like everybody else. But then somebody said: “You don’t know Andy Warhol? He’s been in your loft for a month – and you don’t know him?” So I was introduced to him, and that’s how we met.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1976), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson, Kasper Bech Dyg and Jonas Mekas
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
https://wn.com/The_Story_Of_Jonas_Mekas
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who never goes anywhere without his camera. Mekas here shares his fascinating personal story and shows us around his workspace in Brooklyn, New York.
Mekas feels that he grew up in Paradise until the Soviets came: “… they brought hell, and my paradise ended.” The Russian tanks began rolling in the very same week that Mekas got his first still camera, and his first picture was thus of these Russian tanks - until a lieutenant took his camera and smashed it: “That was the beginning of my film and photography career – my first image ended up under the Russian soldier’s boot in the dust of my village.”
Even though Mekas has experienced ten years of hell during and following World War II, he does not want his movies to reflect this: “Why should I represent and show in my movies any of the hell, which we see already in life…” Mekas and his brother arrived in New York in 1947: “We came like empty sponges ready to absorb anything that was there.” After a couple of years they realized that cinema was more than the Hollywood cinema they had been exposed to back home, and the footage that Mekas had initially just made as a form of practice, was eventually transformed into his first diary film, ‘Walden.’
“Chance has it’s own logic.” In the 1960’s, when no one wanted to distribute or finance Mekas’ films, he and a group of other filmmakers – including Robert Frank – created The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, which provided them with the freedom to create whatever they wanted. This came to have a great impact on the community of independent filmmakers, as it proved that money wasn’t the most important factor when trying to make interesting movies. It was also in connection to The Film-Makers’ Cooperative that Mekas met Andy Warhol, who hung out in the loft, where the filmmakers met, and whom he later made a movie with: “I did not know him at all. There were people sitting on the floor, and he was there on the floor like everybody else. But then somebody said: “You don’t know Andy Warhol? He’s been in your loft for a month – and you don’t know him?” So I was introduced to him, and that’s how we met.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1976), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson, Kasper Bech Dyg and Jonas Mekas
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
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- published: 17 Aug 2015
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Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
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The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmak...
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
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The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met in his Brooklyn-home, has a clear piece of advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t go to film school. Get a camera.”
If you have the necessary funds, film school is a nice place to meet like-minded people and make friends. Apart from that, it makes more sense to look into the specific things that you take special interest in – such as lenses – rather than to simply study everything: “Why do you need everything? Maybe you’ll never need it for what you want to do.”
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922 in Lithuania) is an experimental filmmaker and poet. He has filmed artists such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and his movies include ‘The Brig’ (1963) – which won him the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year –, ‘Walden’ (1969), ‘Lost Lost Lost’ (1975), ‘Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol’ (1990), ‘As I was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) and ‘Sleepless Night Stories’ (2011). Since 2000, he has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at prominent venues such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Moderna Museet, PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA and the Venice Biennale. Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue. Moreover, he is one of the co-founders of New American Cinema Group. Mekas currently lives and works in New York City. For more about him see: www.jonasmekas.com
Jonas Mekas was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in his home in Brooklyn, New York in November 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
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At Home with Jonas Mekas
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On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Rea...
On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
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On the occasion of his retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Jonas Mekas speaks about his life in cinema and writing. Read his answers to the frieze Questionnaire here: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/questionnaire-jonas-mekas/
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Jonas Mekas - Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
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Jonas Mekas - As I
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A documentary about underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas in New York.
directed by Alexandre Perrier & Jeremiah.
Produced by Kidam
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A documentary about underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas in New York.
directed by Alexandre Perrier & Jeremiah.
Produced by Kidam
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A documentary about underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas in New York.
directed by Alexandre Perrier & Jeremiah.
Produced by Kidam
www.kidam.net
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Jonas Mekas I am not a filmmaker trailer
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Jonas Mekas - Walden
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DIARIES notes and sketches - also known as WALDEN (1969) bit.ly/walden_reels
(Subtitled in six languages: French, Italian, German, Japanese, Lithuanian and Span...
DIARIES notes and sketches - also known as WALDEN (1969) bit.ly/walden_reels
(Subtitled in six languages: French, Italian, German, Japanese, Lithuanian and Spanish.)
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. WALDEN, his first completed diary film, shot between 1964-1969, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s and a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
After nearly thirty years Jonas Mekas' "Walden" looms as a central cinematic document of daily life in the New York community of artists during one of its moments of splendor. Although Mekas is neither shocking nor confessional, he has marked every moment of this very long film with the nunaces of his own personality. In the grand array of characters, mostly unnamed, or identified only by a Christian name, -- although some others are internationally famous -- the only psychological portrait is that of the filmmaker himself: an exiled Lithuanian poet fascinated and tortured by his slow Americanization. The film is possessed by a nervous, staccatto rhythm that repeatedly opens out into expansive raptures.
The massive accumulation of images provided Mekas with a unique archive for constructing this visual diary, the first of many he completed. Watching it now, we can recover a sense of that place and time that no other film can give us. As a minor character, periodically passing before my friend's camera, I recognize how fragmentary and elliptical his representation of others can be, and yet these images have become for me the strongest visual indices of who I was thirty years ago. That may be the core of Mekas' art: in finding a cinematic form in which he could capture his changing moods without imposing a coherent mask of himself, he has made a work that lets others appear in their phenomenal ambiguity. --- P. Adams Sitney (1997)
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DIARIES notes and sketches - also known as WALDEN (1969) bit.ly/walden_reels
(Subtitled in six languages: French, Italian, German, Japanese, Lithuanian and Spanish.)
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. WALDEN, his first completed diary film, shot between 1964-1969, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s and a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
After nearly thirty years Jonas Mekas' "Walden" looms as a central cinematic document of daily life in the New York community of artists during one of its moments of splendor. Although Mekas is neither shocking nor confessional, he has marked every moment of this very long film with the nunaces of his own personality. In the grand array of characters, mostly unnamed, or identified only by a Christian name, -- although some others are internationally famous -- the only psychological portrait is that of the filmmaker himself: an exiled Lithuanian poet fascinated and tortured by his slow Americanization. The film is possessed by a nervous, staccatto rhythm that repeatedly opens out into expansive raptures.
The massive accumulation of images provided Mekas with a unique archive for constructing this visual diary, the first of many he completed. Watching it now, we can recover a sense of that place and time that no other film can give us. As a minor character, periodically passing before my friend's camera, I recognize how fragmentary and elliptical his representation of others can be, and yet these images have become for me the strongest visual indices of who I was thirty years ago. That may be the core of Mekas' art: in finding a cinematic form in which he could capture his changing moods without imposing a coherent mask of himself, he has made a work that lets others appear in their phenomenal ambiguity. --- P. Adams Sitney (1997)
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ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS II: I WAS MOVING AHEAD
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ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS
"WALDEN" "I WAS MOVING AHEAD..." "LETTER FROM GREENPOINT"
LISBOA, 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2009
FRANCISCO ALGARIN NAVARRO, FELIX GARCIA DE ...
ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS
"WALDEN" "I WAS MOVING AHEAD..." "LETTER FROM GREENPOINT"
LISBOA, 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2009
FRANCISCO ALGARIN NAVARRO, FELIX GARCIA DE VILLEGAS, MARTA MONTIANO
VIDEO: CLARA SANZ
AGRADECIMIENTOS:
MANUEL PRAENA
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA
DOC LISBOA 09
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ENTREVISTA CON JONAS MEKAS
"WALDEN" "I WAS MOVING AHEAD..." "LETTER FROM GREENPOINT"
LISBOA, 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2009
FRANCISCO ALGARIN NAVARRO, FELIX GARCIA DE VILLEGAS, MARTA MONTIANO
VIDEO: CLARA SANZ
AGRADECIMIENTOS:
MANUEL PRAENA
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA
DOC LISBOA 09
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Retratos_ Jonas Mekas
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Um filme-retrato de Jonas Mekas, registro de um jantar em sua casa, no Brooklin, NY, novembro de 2011.
Retratos é uma série de filme-portraits com pessoas que, ...
Um filme-retrato de Jonas Mekas, registro de um jantar em sua casa, no Brooklin, NY, novembro de 2011.
Retratos é uma série de filme-portraits com pessoas que, de diferentes formas, me afetam.
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Um filme-retrato de Jonas Mekas, registro de um jantar em sua casa, no Brooklin, NY, novembro de 2011.
Retratos é uma série de filme-portraits com pessoas que, de diferentes formas, me afetam.
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Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
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Lost, Lost, Lost (Jonas Mekas, 1976)
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Užupio kronikos. 1997 12 28. Jonas Mekas, Užupio mišios
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - 1
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Salon | Artist Talk | Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas, Artist, Lithuania, in conversation with Bernd Scherer, Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Date: Saturday, June 18, 2016, 2pm to 3pm Filmed on site at Art Basel in Basel 2016
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Dictionary of Now #1 | Jonas Mekas - TIME
In the first edition of the series Dictionary of Now Jonas Mekas in a conversation with Bernd Scherer, publisher Anne König, and media scientist Christian Hiller will explore the question of how historiography and the subjective “now” can be set in relation to one another. © Film and Production by Dusan Solomun
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Jonas Mekas - A Walk (1990)
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Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
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Jonas Mekas Interview
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Lost, Lost, Lost (Jonas Mekas, 1976)
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SUSITIKIMAI 2015-01-27 Jonas Mekas
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Jonas or Cuts of Nothing
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Jonas Mekas.
Nufilmavo Arūnas Kulikauskas
Jonas Mekas.
Nufilmavo Arūnas Kulikauskas
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Užupio kronikos. 1997 12 28. Jonas Mekas, Užupio mišios
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - 1
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Salon | Artist Talk | Jonas Mekas
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Jonas Mekas, Artist, Lithuania, in conversation with Bernd Scherer, Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2016, 2pm to 3pm
Fil...
Jonas Mekas, Artist, Lithuania, in conversation with Bernd Scherer, Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2016, 2pm to 3pm
Filmed on site at Art Basel in Basel 2016
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Jonas Mekas, Artist, Lithuania, in conversation with Bernd Scherer, Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2016, 2pm to 3pm
Filmed on site at Art Basel in Basel 2016
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Dictionary of Now #1 | Jonas Mekas - TIME
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- Duration: 2:09:55
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In the first edition of the series Dictionary of Now Jonas Mekas in a conversation with Bernd Scherer, publisher Anne König, and media scientist Christian Hille...
In the first edition of the series Dictionary of Now Jonas Mekas in a conversation with Bernd Scherer, publisher Anne König, and media scientist Christian Hiller will explore the question of how historiography and the subjective “now” can be set in relation to one another.
© Film and Production by Dusan Solomun
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In the first edition of the series Dictionary of Now Jonas Mekas in a conversation with Bernd Scherer, publisher Anne König, and media scientist Christian Hiller will explore the question of how historiography and the subjective “now” can be set in relation to one another.
© Film and Production by Dusan Solomun
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Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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Jonas Mekas - A Walk (1990)
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Jonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's Studio
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
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Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
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Jonas Mekas ‒ Salvador Dali, Happenings (1963-64)
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Jonas Mekas ‒ Salvador Dali, Happenings (1963-64)
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SUSITIKIMAI 2015-01-27 Jonas Mekas
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Paradise
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise.
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
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jonas Mekas 365 Nov' 7th film
Jonas Mekas meditates on food and poetry.
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Jonas Mekas, Walden, 1969 (excerpt)
Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN
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The Story of Jonas Mekas
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Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
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At Home with Jonas Mekas
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Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
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Jonas Mekas Interview
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Jonas Mekas interview Lucca 2008
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BOZAR interviews Jonas Mekas
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I Had Nowhere to Go - TIFF 2016 - Interview with Jonas Mekas (Episode 218)
Jonas and I talked about refugees and memory, about ambient noise and the new film about h...
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I Had Nowhere to Go - TIFF 2016 - Interview with Jonas Mekas (Episode 218)
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At Home with Jonas Mekas
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Jonas Mekas 365 Films April 3, 2007
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Day 93 Tuesday April 3, 2007
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Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
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At Home with Jonas Mekas
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At Home with Jonas Mekas
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Jonas Mekas on his latest work
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Jonas Mekas on his latest work
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Underground New York - Gideon Bachmann (1968) TRAILER
Underground New York, a film by Gideon Bachmann
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Interview // Douglas Gordon, Part 2: 'I Had Nowhere to Go', A Memoir of Jonas Mekas' Life.
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Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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Jonas Mekas - A Walk (1990)
Jonas Mekas - A Walk (1990)
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Jonas Mekas - In Focus - The Artist's Studio
An interview with filmmaker, poet, artist and film critic Jonas Mekas.
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Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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Walden - Jonas Mekas (Tim's place)
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Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
The godfather of American avant-garde cinema, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, whom we met ...
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Jonas Mekas ‒ Salvador Dali, Happenings (1963-64)
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SUSITIKIMAI 2015-01-27 Jonas Mekas
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Paradise
"Without knowing, we carry, each of us, with us somewhere deep some images of paradise.
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - Jonas Mekas
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jonas Mekas 365 Nov' 7th film
Jonas Mekas meditates on food and poetry.
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Jonas Mekas, Walden, 1969 (excerpt)
Jonas Mekas - Diaries, Notes and Sketches also known as WALDEN
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The Story of Jonas Mekas
We had the unique pleasure of meeting the great avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who nev...
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Jonas Mekas: Advice to the Young
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At Home with Jonas Mekas
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Jonas Mekas - A Walk (1990)
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Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
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Jonas Mekas Interview
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Lost, Lost, Lost (Jonas Mekas, 1976)
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Lost, Lost, Lost (Jonas Mekas, 1976)
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Jonas or Cuts of Nothing
Jonas Mekas.
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Užupio kronikos. 1997 12 28. Jonas Mekas, Užupio mišios
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - 1
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Salon | Artist Talk | Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas, Artist, Lithuania, in conversation with Bernd Scherer, Director, Haus der Kul...
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Dictionary of Now #1 | Jonas Mekas - TIME
In the first edition of the series Dictionary of Now Jonas Mekas in a conversation with Be...
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An alliance of news publishers has called on European regulators to rethink proposed changes to online privacy laws, arguing that they will potentially kill their digital businesses and give Google, Apple and Facebook too much control of advertising and personal data ... Currently, when users visit an individual website or app they are asked if they will consent to a cookietracking them....
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A Belgian university is red-faced after a message was sent out asking female students attending next month’s graduation ceremony to wear low-cut outfits, BBC News reported.The email, the report said, was sent to medical students at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) ... "No one has the right to tell you how you should feel in your skin. Nobody has the right to tell you how to dress....
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The “unauthorized” deployment of four additional Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile launcher batteries in South Korea has “shocked” the country’s new president causing him to order an investigation into the deployment, Press TV reported Tuesday....
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‘Super-Earth’ found 21 light years away may host alien life
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Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable Earth-like planet, located just 21 light years away, that may host liquid water on its surface. The post ‘Super-Earth’ found 21 light years away may host alien life ... ....
Nick Jonas: 'I always think I'm going to be fired the first day of a new job'
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– Though he's been acting since he was 7, Nick Jonas says he still figures he's going to crash and burn with every new role ... In fact, Jonas has been executing a balancing act between life and work since he was a little boy growing up in New Jersey ... popular band, the Jonas Brothers....
Zambia name team for Gabon friendly
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The match will mark the return of striker Jonas Sakuwaha, of promoted Faz Super League Buildcon to the team for the first time since February, 2012 ... Meanwhile, Power Dynamos has the biggest contingent in the travelling party with five players ... Team.. Goalkeepers ... Defenders ... Midfielders ... Strikers. Jonas Sakuwaha (Buildcon), Ignatius Luipa (Nakambala Leopards) ,Ronald Kampamba (Nkana), Justin Shonga (Nkwazi), Brian Mwila (Green Buffaloes). ....
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[Ghanaian Chronicle] Somanya -The youth of Somanya in the Eastern Region, yesterday took the law into their own hands, by burning lorry tyres and blocking some of the roads in the town, in protest against the arrest of Mr. Jonas Tetteh (a.k.a Dendenden), Assembly Member for the Sawer Electoral Area ... ....
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Global demand for electric vehicles will surge during the next few decades, but gasoline is probably not going away soon, said a new research note from Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas ... ....
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... foreign-currency and local-currency bonds to noninvestment grade following the firing of finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy‚ Mcebisi Jonas‚ arguing that this was likely to change the direction of the country’s economic policy....
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What's important to keep in mind here is that gasoline is easy. Once the oil is refined, it's easy to store, easy to transport, and easy to distribute. Fueling infrastructure is widespread, while electric-charging infrastructure isn't ... Loading video... More. BITranspo Morgan Stanley Adam Jonas Electric Cars Tesla Auto Industry Opinion Op-Ed ... ....
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BOSTON (CBS) — The Celtics took a big step forward during the 2016-17 season, advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2012 ... Despite the franchise’s progress, the gap between the Celtics and title contenders like the Cavaliers and Warriors is a significant one ... Al Horford ... His guarantee timeline is very similar to the deals that Jonas Jerebko and Amir Johnson had last summer ... Jonas Jerebko (Bird Rights) ... ....
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