Jonas Mekas
A Letter from Greenpoint
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Original format HD
Year 2004
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Jonas Mekas
Author(s) Phong Bui
Subtitles French, German, Lithuanian
Booklet 16 pages (French, English)
Running time 80 min
Films
A LETTER FROM GREENPOINT (2004) 80'
Description
"In February 2004, after 30 years of living in SoHo, I made the decision to leave SoHo and move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This video is about what one feels when leaving a place where one has spent the most time and which was also the place of my family life. I am elsewhere now. It's about the beginning of putting down roots in a new place, a new home, with new friends, new thoughts, experiences. This video is also about video. When in 1949 I began filming with my Bolex, it took me fifteen years to truly master it so that it would do for me what I wanted. When in 1987 I bought my first Sony camera, I thought it would be different. But no. It's only today, after working with a video camera for fifteen years, that I feel it has become an extension of my eye, my body, A Letter from Greenpoint being my first true video work."
— Jonas Mekas