Scenes from the Life of Jonas Mekas
Best known as a poet in his native Lithuania, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) became a titan of US underground cinema after moving to New York in 1949. This week, Juliet talks to filmmaker/artist Chiara Ambrosio and curator/critic Herb Shellenberger about Mekas' life, work and legacy. SELECTED REFERENCES Films by Jonas Mekas Film Magazine of the Arts (1963) - http://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/jonas-mekas-film-magazine-of-the-arts Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1969) - https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/diaries-notes-and-sketches-also-known-as-walden Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069172 Lost Lost Lost (1976) - https://vimeo.com/217911753 Self-Portrait (1980) The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained (1992) - https://vimeo.com/40317134 Zefiro Torna (1992) - http://retentionalfinitude.blogspot.com/2010/05/jonas-mekas-zefiro-torna-1992.html As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) - https://variety.com/2001/film/reviews/as-i-was-moving-ahead-occasionally-i-saw-brief-glimpses-of-beauty-1200467427 A Letter from Greenpoint (2005)- https://vimeo.com/229569417 Paris Hilton (2007) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3i8VBich1k Texts by Jonas Mekas Anti-100 Years of Cinema - http://www.incite-online.net/jonasmekas.html Conversations with Filmmakers (2018) - https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/conversations-with-filmmakers-bremer-and-storz-publication-171018 I Had Nowhere to Go (1991) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9GWqYqPbew I Seem to Live (2019) - http://jonasmekasfilms.com/books/index.php?book=I_seem_to_live Scrapbook of the Sixties (2010) 2002 (dir. C. Spencer Yeh, 2015) - https://issueprojectroom.org/event/c-spencer-yeh-video Robert Aldrich Kenneth Anger - https://www.kennethanger.org/ Anthology Film Archives - http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/ Stan Brakhage - http://www.ubu.com/papers/tyler_parker-stan_brakhage.html Bread and Puppet Theater - http://breadandpuppet.org/about-bread-and-puppet/other-links/peter-schumann James Broughton Un Chant d'amour (dir. Jean Genet, 1950) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RN_IDtPcNE Shirley Clarke - http://www.projectshirley.com Tony Conrad - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Conrad Maya Deren - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/maya-deren-meshes-of-the-afternoon Film Culture (journal) - http://www.ubu.com/papers/film_culture.html Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin - http://www.artbook.com/9783959052023.html Flaming Creatures (dir. Jack Smith, 1963) - http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/cteq/flaming/ For Life, Against the War (dir. various, 1967) - http://flahertyseminar.org/life-against-war Allen Ginsberg Beverly Grant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Grant_(actress) Ken Jacobs - https://vimeo.com/kenjacobs Peter Kubelka - https://offscreen.com/view/interview_kubelka Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band - https://www.discogs.com/artist/1013031-Jim-Kweskin-The-Jug-Band Jacques-Henri Lartigue - https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/print-sales/our-artists/jacques-henri-lartigue George Maciunas - http://georgemaciunas.com/about Gregory Markopoulos - https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2018/gregory-markopoulos Marie Menken - https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-220-marie-menken Hermann Nitsch - http://www.nitsch.org/index-en.html Pull My Daisy (dir. Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie, 1959) - https://vimeo.com/92403607 Nicholas Ray Ron Rice - https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/08/23/the-shooting-star-cinema-of-ron-rice/ Shadows (dir. John Cassavetes, 1959) - http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/cassoncass/shadows.shtml Shoah (dir. Claude Lanzmann, 1985) P. Adams Sitney Susan Sontag Stranger Than Paradise (dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1984) Thanatopsis (dir. Em Emshwiller, 1962) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcVAPnFf20Y HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden 1854) Amos Vogel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Vogel Andy Warhol Walt Whitman