Cassis
Cassis looks like a beautiful place. This film does nothing for it. If the point was to show the changes throughout the day, it would have been better to select...
Jonas Mekas
Filmography
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Williamsburg
A pocket-sized city symphony, WILLIAMSBURG collects some of the first images Jonas Mekas shot with a film camera in 1950 (along with footage from 1972 when he was returning to his old neighborhood as a visitor). Bygone Brooklyn is richly evoked in the everyday life of the street: the elevated...Watch Movie
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Travel Songs
Drawn together from two decades of itinerant shooting in Europe, TRAVEL SONGS evokes Jonas Mekas' improvisatory approach to sightseeing, with Assisi, Moscow and Stockholm all filtered through his singularly animated lens. Though tuned to fine-grained particularities of landscape and culture,...Watch Movie
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
The midwife of American avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas (along with his brother Adolfas) was unloaded in New York City by the United Nation Refugee Agency in 1949. There were surely worse places to end-up and Mekas was "hungry for culture," observing the immigrant community in...Watch Movie
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Cassis
CASSIS collapses a full day on the Mediterranean into a dazzling five-minute sketch. Time-lapse photography revels in the endless variations of atmosphere and light, with motorboats and sailboats sweeping across the bay like wind-up toys. The sudden flare of a lighthouse marks the end of the day...Watch Movie
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Hare Krishna
Jonas Mekas's freewheeling camerawork leaves itself open to the possibility of a second Great Awakening in this impressionistic sketch of a Hare Krishna troupe taking to the streets. Later incorporated into WALDEN, this short stands as a fine example of Mekas’ participatory approach to filming. -...Watch Movie
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Notes on the Circus
Public spectacle provides an occasion for private reverie in Jonas Mekas's impressionistic sketch of the Ringling Brothers Circus, a key building block for his larger WALDEN project. The filmmaker's improvisatory camerawork generates a riot of color and movement, the visual...Watch Movie
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Report from Millbrook
Jonas Mekas' elegant report on a Poughkeepsie police department's raid of Timothy Leary's base-of-operations amply demonstrates the political potential of his diary filmmaking. The film's protest is lodged in the disjunction between sound and image, with Mekas' intimate,...Watch Movie
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The Brig
"I went to see 'The Brig', the play, the night it closed. The Becks were told to shut down and get out. The performance, by this time, was so precisely acted that it moved with the inevitability of life itself. As I watched it I thought: Suppose this was a real brig; suppose I was a newsreel...Watch Movie
Genres
- Adaptation / Theatrical / Stage
- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde / City Symphony
- Avant-garde / Silent
- Crime / Prison
- Documentary / Biography
- Documentary / History
- Documentary / Travelogue
- Documentary / Travelogue / Seafaring
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Political
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / European / Lithuanian
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Narrative
Recent Reviews
Hare Krishna
"Takin' It To The Streets" Krishna style. The camera work is very creative. It is almost hypnotic when combined with the repetitive music. It's fun watching hippies dancing, playing and...
Report from Millbrook
Excellent! Beautiful film!!
Report from Millbrook
Thoughtful and ironic.
Lost Lost Lost
Lost, Lost, Lost... is how I feel trying to find words to describe the eloquence and magic of the work of Jonas Mekas. He is the Poet Laureate of Home...