Jonas Mekas
Fluxfriends
Author(s) Jonas Mekas
Format paperback
Year 2002
Language(s) French
Pages 158 pages
Publisher Pompidou
Description
A selection of texts, letters and correspondence, intimate journals around the Fluxus movement and its implications in cinema. The collection provides a better understanding of the nature of this movement through the prism of the friendships between G. Maciunas, clown, gagman, inventor of the Fluxus planet, Y. Ono, experimental artist, visual artist, J. Lennon, member of the Beatles, and J. Mekas, poet and filmmaker.
A major international artistic movement of the 60s and 70s, Fluxus rebelled against the sacralization of art, wielding humor, derision, and insignificance. This book reveals the true nature of this movement through the prism of the friendships between four individuals: George Maciunas, clown, gagman, mischievous and clever character, the inventor of the Fluxus planet, Yoko Ono, Japanese experimental artist, visual artist, musician, filmmaker, John Lennon, member of the Beatles, Pop Music star, and finally Jonas Mekas, poet, chronicler, filmmaker, author of filmed diaries.
Fluxfriends belongs to an unprecedented literary category, the montage book, in reference to the montage film, preferring to the linearity of a narrative a skillful assembly of archives, interviews, texts and excerpts from intimate journals that employ many cinematic stylistic figures: flashback, ellipsis, sequence, insert. In this book, fun and humor prevail despite the sometimes dramatic course of life.