Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas
Ligne(s) de vie
Author(s) Jonas & Adolfas Mekas
Format softcover
Year 2021
Language(s) French
Pages 320 pages
Publisher Passport Journal
Description
This magnificent and mysterious book whose previously unpublished pages contain a collection of letters that the famous brothers Jonas and Adolfas Mekas sent from America to the village of Semeniškiai, Biržai district, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. They were all addressed to the most important recipient in their lives – their mother, Elzbieta Mekienė.
"This collection of letters from Adolfas and Jonas Mekas proves the importance of writing as a means of creating memory. For many years, Jonas Mekas kept his diaries, before they were replaced by the constant capture on film of his life and environment. These letters and the intimate view they offer are invaluable documents of their time as much as they mark the disappearance of the epistolary art. One day, Jonas told me: 'the future will be determined by this present moment and this moment, at this precise second, will determine the next one.' Let us make sure to remember this present moment as it was, partly determined by the moments described by Adolfas and Jonas Mekas in their magnificent correspondence." Hans Ulrich Obrist