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| Jonas MEKAS |
Jonas Mekas (born 1922) is a Lithuanian filmmaker, writer, and curator
who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema."
He was the founder of the Anthology Film Archives, The Film Makers Cooperative
and Film Culture magazine. He was heavily involved with artists such as
Andy Warhol, Nico, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Salvador Dali and fellow Lithuanian
George Maciunas. During the Second World War, Mekas was held in displaced
persons camps before emigrating to the United States with his brother,
Adolfas Mekas, in 1949.
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Though his narrative films and documentaries are highly appreciated, he
is best known for his diary films, such as Walden (1969), Lost, Lost, Lost
(1975), Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania (1972), and Zefiro Torna
(1992). In 2001, he released a five-hour long diary film entitled As I
Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, this documentary
is based on the chronicles of his life.
 Official Web Site
http://picpal.com/mekas.html |
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| Screenprints in 1983 |
"Oona Mekas, age 5, practices viollin while the cat and Hollis(mother)
1979"
1983 Screenprint
Image Size 53×37.5cm
Sheet Size 63×48cm
Ed.75 Signed
55,000YEN |
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"Cars in the night street, Manhattan"
1983 Screenprint
Image Size 53×37.5cm
Sheet Size 63×48cm
Ed.75 Signed
55,000YEN |
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"Self-Portrait in the shadow at Lacoste, the castle of Marquis de
Sade 1975"
1983 Screenprint
Image Size 37×51cm
Sheet Size 48×63cm
Ed.75 Signed
55,000YEN |
"Peter Beard in Montauk 1974"
1983 Screenprint
Image Size 37.5×51cm
Sheet Size 48×63cm
Ed.75 Signed
55,000YEN |
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"Kate Manheim with a daisy 1972"
1983 Screenprint
Image Size 63×43cm
Sheet Size 63×48cm
Ed.75 Signed
55,000YEN |
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"A wall with raindrops and shadows of branches and leaves"
1983 Screenprint
Image Size 37.5×51cm
Sheet Size 48×63cm
Ed.75 Signed
55,000YEN
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"Kyoko's seventh birthday (Yoko Ono's daughter) 1970"
1983 Screenprint
Image Size 36.5×24cm
Sheet Size 63×48cm
Ed.75 Signed
55,000YEN |
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Frozen Film Frames |
"John was the captain, that day, when we went water skiing , Montauk,
Aug. 1972"
2000 Type-C print
Image Size 30×20cm
Ed.10 Signed
60,000YEN |
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"Anthony, John and Lee were perfect students of home movies, and I acted as a professor, Montauk, 1972"
2000 Type-C print
Image Size 30×20cm
Ed.10 Signed
60,000YEN |
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Frozen Film Frames from "WALDEN"
2005 Type-C print
Image Size 30×20cm
Ed.10 Signed
60,000YEN each |
No.1 "WALDEN" |
No.2 "the scenery of Walden is beautiful..." |
No.3 "this country afford..." |
No.4 "now I am not sure was this real or was it only my dream"
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No.5 "NEWS OF THE DAY" |
No.6 "YOU LOOK AT THE SUN. THEN YOU RETURN HOME AND YOU CAN'T WORK,
YOU'RE IMPREGNATE WITH ALL THAT LIGHT"
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No.7 "she said she wanted to touch the grass she said she wanted in
this big City to touch earth with her bare feet she said" |
No.8 "DEEP OF WINTER" |
No.9 "there are little secret brooks that only the lonely ones know
about" |
No.10 "with love to my New York" |
No.11 "I can sit so for hours she said listening to the distant sound
of the City"
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No.12 "...rain-storm..." |
No.13 "I love my New York in the middle of the summer heat & sweat" |
No.14 "the spring comes very slowly and then very suddenly everything
is abloom!" |
No.15 "my dream city 1966" |
No.16 "I'd like to be there now those summers it used to be very peaceful
there there were fish there too"
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No.17 "one fall day just after the rain" |
No.18 "there is poetry there is love & loneliness & there
is me somewhere there in those nights of New York" |
No.19 "ah the winters of New York!" |
No.20 "there were mysteries & secrets & phantoms at play mysterious
happenings not visible to all" |
No.21 "In the deepest snows," |
No.22 "yes this was my Walden this was my chidhood this was my winter
there in a dream" |
No.23 "I loved you I loved your bustle your noise I could walk your
streets forever drinking it all in I was your lover" |
No.24 "I came to you in 1000 pieces you put me together again back
my life & trust trust trust trust" |
No.25 "yes, this was a city of my dream sometimes I didn't know where
I was, was I awake or still dreaming"
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No.26 "and the music played and played - - -" |
No.27 "the first spring flowers were just emerging from erath still
sweating out the winter" |
No.28 "...rosebud..." |
No.29 "ah and then came the autumn full of leaves & children voices" |
No.30 "one Sunday morning in Central park just after snow fall" |
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