Jonas Mekas

Notes on Marie Menken (2006)

Cast: Stan Brakhage Kenneth Anger   

Tags: Biography Visual Arts Film & Television History 

Length: 102min

Marie Menken was an artist and experimental filmmaker who was a contemporary and confidante to many noted auteurs of the '60s, including Kenneth Anger (he helped her shoot her film Arabesque for Kenneth Anger, while she appeared in Scorpio Rising),...

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Anger Me (2006)

Tags: Film & Television History Film, TV & Radio Biography 

Length: 72min

Elio Gelmini's Anger Me paints an enduring biographical portrait of Kenneth Anger, one of the most fascinating, controversial and brilliant cinematic artists of the past sixty years, and a veritable godfather of independent film. Raised in Tinseltown,...

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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001)

Tags: Film & Television History Film, TV & Radio Culture & Society Biography 

Length: 288min

A pivotal figure in the American avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas has been active and influential as a filmmaker, critic, distributor, and champion of independent cinema since the early '60s, and this feature assembles over four hours of home movies...

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He Stands In A Desert Counting The Seconds of His Life (1986)

Length: 150min

This rapid-fire, avant-garde look at the world of director Jonas Mekas is filmed like a ~Sesame Street episode for adults. Not one of its more than 100 vignettes lasts longer than two minutes, and many are just 30 seconds in length. Notables such as...

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)

Tags: Sociology Culture & Society Social History Biography 

Length: 83min

This film, and its companion piece Going Home are documentaries in the form of home movies. It records the return visit of brothers Jonas and Adolfas Mekas to their homeland of Lithuania. They apparently left the country near the end of World War II,...

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Jonas in the Desert (1994)

Cast: Martin Scorsese Al Pacino Jonas Mekas Paul Morrissey   

Tags: Biography Film, TV & Radio 

Length: 123min

Evidently shot over a decade, this documentary portrait of Lithuanian-born filmmaker-poet Jonas Mekas examines his life and career as a director (The Brig, Guns of the Trees), film critic (~Village Voice), film historian, magazine editor (~Film...

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Step Across the Border (1990)

Tags: Art Film Music Instrumental Music 

Length: 90min

Fans of avant-garde jazz and blues performance will appreciate this avant-garde documentary, which intersperses discussions with Fred Frith and his band with rehearsal and concert footage. From time to time the filmmakers indulge in a bit of jazz of...

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Lost Lost Lost (1976)

Tags: Art Film 

Length: 178min

Jonas Mekas was a vitally important figure in the American experimental film movement of the '50s and '60s; in addition to making a number of acclaimed films of his own, Mekas was the guiding light behind New York City's Filmmakers Cooperative, the...

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Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1970)

Cast: Norman Mailer Andy Warhol Dr. Timothy Leary John Lennon   

Tags: Art Film 

Length: 180min

Underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas presents a collection of home movies, outtakes and unfinished projects. A picnic in Central Park with friends is shown, as are Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer in an anti-war protest march. John Lennon and Yoko Ono...

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