Jonas MEKAS |
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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. |
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| Screenprints in 1983 |
 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" |
 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" |
 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" |
 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" |
 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" |
 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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