Jonas Mekas
Diaries, Notes & Sketches Vol. 1-8 (DVD)
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Original format 16mm, video
Year 1963-2014
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Jonas Mekas
Subtitles French, English, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese
Running time 1262 min
Films
VOL.01/8
WALDEN (1969) 180'
VOL.02/8
LOST LOST LOST (1976) 178'
VOL.03/8
1. AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964) 12'
2. FILM MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS (1963) 20'
3. CASSIS (1966) 4'
4. HARE KRISHNA (1966) 4'
5. NOTES ON THE CIRCUS (1966) 12'
6. REPORT FROM MILLBROOK (1966) 12'
7. TRAVEL SONGS (2003) 28'
8. IN BETWEEN (1978) 52'
9. NOTES FOR JEROME (1978) 45'
VOL.04/8
1. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972) 82'
2. PARADISE NOT YET LOST (1979) 96'
VOL.05/8
1. SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1990) 35'
2. ZEFIRO TORNA (1992) 34'
3. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOHN (1996) 24'
4. THIS SIDE OF PARADISE (1999) 35'
VOL.06/8
1. OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN (2012) 68'
2. QUARTET #1 (1991) 8'
3. CINEMA IS NOT 100 YEARS OLD (1996) 4'
4. SONG OF AVIGNON (1998) 5'
5. EIN MÄRCHEN AUS ALTEN ZEITEN (2001) 6'
6. LETTER TO PENNY ARCADE (2011) 14'
7. WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN (1949-2002) 15'
8. SILENCE PLEASE (2000) 6'
9. MY BOLEXES (2015) 4'
VOL.07/8
AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD OCCASIONALLY I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY (2000) 135'
REELS 1-6
VOL.08/8
AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD OCCASIONALLY I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY (2000) 149'
REELS 7-12
BONUS
Every Frame Every Second Is Real: a fragment of original film stock from a Mekas film print
24 postcards
includes a booklet of texts on the films
Description
This box set brings together the "film diaries" of Jonas Mekas (1922-2019). In this personal cinema that consists of filming life on the fly, Mekas works without a script, as if taking visual notes of his surroundings. He films almost daily and accumulates reels of 30 meters (2'30"), periodically editing, selecting and assembling reels and fragments to make his films that reflect different periods of his life: postwar New York with displaced persons like himself; in the mid-1960s, at the heart of the avant-garde; later, returns to Lithuania both sweet and sad. Throughout, family, friends and the simple things of life leave a sublime trace on film—that of time that never stops running but which Jonas Mekas, by filming it, restores to reality.
Originally, Jonas Mekas conceived Diaries Notes and Sketches as a unified work in its style and continuity. It was to comprise a number of chapters, with Walden being the first to be edited and screened, while Lost Lost Lost, having been shot during the preceding 15 years, would not be edited until seven years later. Mekas eventually abandoned this single title in the face of incomprehension from film printing laboratories, and each film ultimately received its own specific title.