Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Lithuania. In 1944, he and his brother were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Germany. At the end of 1949, the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York City, where they settled down in Brooklyn. Two months after his arrival in New York, Mekas bought his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. He soon got deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement. In 1954, he started Film Culture magazine, and in 1958 he began his legendary Movie Journal column in the Village Voice. In 1962 he founded the Film-Makers' Cooperative, and in 1964 the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives. During all this time he continued writing poetry and making films. He died in Brooklyn in 2019.
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Walden - Reels 4 to 6
Filmed from 1964 to 1969, Walden was Jonas Mekas’ first completed diary film, composed of moments, events, and experiences he immortalized with his Bolex camera. An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Velvet Underground, Walden is also a home movie, an earnest an...
Walden - Reels 1 to 3
Filmed from 1964 to 1969, _Walden_ was Jonas Mekas’ first completed diary film, composed of moments, events, and experiences he immortalized with his Bolex camera. An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Velvet Underground, _Walden_ is also a home movie, an earnes...
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 11 à 12)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 11 à 12)
« Mes journaux filmés de 1970 à 1999. Cela couvre mon mariage, la naissance de mes enfants, on les voit grandir. Des images de la vie quotidienne, des fragments de bonheur et de beauté. Les voyages en France, Italie, Espagne et Autriche. Les saisons, comme elles passent à New York, la vie à la maison, la nature. Rien d’extraordinaire, rien de spécial, des choses que nous vivons tous au cours de...
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 8 à 10)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 8 à 10)
« Mes journaux filmés de 1970 à 1999. Cela couvre mon mariage, la naissance de mes enfants, on les voit grandir. Des images de la vie quotidienne, des fragments de bonheur et de beauté. Les voyages en France, Italie, Espagne et Autriche. Les saisons, comme elles passent à New York, la vie à la maison, la nature. Rien d’extraordinaire, rien de spécial, des choses que nous vivons tous au cours de...
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 5 à 7)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 5 à 7)
« Mes journaux filmés de 1970 à 1999. Cela couvre mon mariage, la naissance de mes enfants, on les voit grandir. Des images de la vie quotidienne, des fragments de bonheur et de beauté. Les voyages en France, Italie, Espagne et Autriche. Les saisons, comme elles passent à New York, la vie à la maison, la nature. Rien d’extraordinaire, rien de spécial, des choses que nous vivons tous au cours de...
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 1 à 4)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 1 à 4)
« Mes journaux filmés de 1970 à 1999. Cela couvre mon mariage, la naissance de mes enfants, on les voit grandir. Des images de la vie quotidienne, des fragments de bonheur et de beauté. Les voyages en France, Italie, Espagne et Autriche. Les saisons, comme elles passent à New York, la vie à la maison, la nature. Rien d’extraordinaire, rien de spécial, des choses que nous vivons tous au cours de...
The Brig
Direct shooting, camera on stage, of the play The Brig performed by New York’s Living Theatre in 1964. The play is a harsh and realistic depiction of the lives of prisoners in a US Marine Corps military prison in Japan in 1957. Subjected to all kinds of abuse and “hazing” all day long, forced to carry out arduous jobs and thankless tasks, they dance to the infernal tune of their jailors.
Walden - Reels 4 to 6
Filmed from 1964 to 1969, Walden was Jonas Mekas’ first completed diary film, composed of moments, events, and experiences he immortalized with his Bolex camera. An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Velvet Underground, Walden is also a home movie, an earnest an...
Walden - Reels 1 to 3
Filmed from 1964 to 1969, _Walden_ was Jonas Mekas’ first completed diary film, composed of moments, events, and experiences he immortalized with his Bolex camera. An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Velvet Underground, _Walden_ is also a home movie, an earnes...
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 11 à 12)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 11 à 12)
« Mes journaux filmés de 1970 à 1999. Cela couvre mon mariage, la naissance de mes enfants, on les voit grandir. Des images de la vie quotidienne, des fragments de bonheur et de beauté. Les voyages en France, Italie, Espagne et Autriche. Les saisons, comme elles passent à New York, la vie à la maison, la nature. Rien d’extraordinaire, rien de spécial, des choses que nous vivons tous au cours de...
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 8 à 10)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 8 à 10)
« Mes journaux filmés de 1970 à 1999. Cela couvre mon mariage, la naissance de mes enfants, on les voit grandir. Des images de la vie quotidienne, des fragments de bonheur et de beauté. Les voyages en France, Italie, Espagne et Autriche. Les saisons, comme elles passent à New York, la vie à la maison, la nature. Rien d’extraordinaire, rien de spécial, des choses que nous vivons tous au cours de...
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 5 à 7)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 5 à 7)
« Mes journaux filmés de 1970 à 1999. Cela couvre mon mariage, la naissance de mes enfants, on les voit grandir. Des images de la vie quotidienne, des fragments de bonheur et de beauté. Les voyages en France, Italie, Espagne et Autriche. Les saisons, comme elles passent à New York, la vie à la maison, la nature. Rien d’extraordinaire, rien de spécial, des choses que nous vivons tous au cours de...
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 1 à 4)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Chapitres 1 à 4)
« Mes journaux filmés de 1970 à 1999. Cela couvre mon mariage, la naissance de mes enfants, on les voit grandir. Des images de la vie quotidienne, des fragments de bonheur et de beauté. Les voyages en France, Italie, Espagne et Autriche. Les saisons, comme elles passent à New York, la vie à la maison, la nature. Rien d’extraordinaire, rien de spécial, des choses que nous vivons tous au cours de...
The Brig
Direct shooting, camera on stage, of the play The Brig performed by New York’s Living Theatre in 1964. The play is a harsh and realistic depiction of the lives of prisoners in a US Marine Corps military prison in Japan in 1957. Subjected to all kinds of abuse and “hazing” all day long, forced to carry out arduous jobs and thankless tasks, they dance to the infernal tune of their jailors.
