Jonas Mekas
Lost, Lost, Lost
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Add rightsFormat DVD PAL Interzone/Region 0
Original format 16mm
Year 1949-1976
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Jonas Mekas
Subtitles French, German, Lithuanian
Running time 180 min
Films
LOST, LOST, LOST (1949-1963, 1976) 180'
Description
"The period I cover in these six reels was a period of despair, of desperate attempts to take root in new soil, to create new memories. In these six painful reels, I tried to show what it feels like to be an exile, what I felt during those years. They describe the state of mind of a displaced person who has not yet forgotten their native country, but has not yet gained a new one. The sixth reel is a transitional reel where one begins to see a certain relaxation, where I begin to find moments of happiness. A new life begins..."
— Jonas Mekas
"The boundary blurs between an artifact—a work of art, conceived as such, a pure product of stylized imagination—and what can be described as a poet's account of events, as sincere and honest as only a poet's account can be. Perhaps Jonas Mekas's Lost Lost Lost has just marked the beginning of a new genre. In the lineage of a Gide, a Sartre, a Malraux. But in cinema."
— Antonin J. Liehm, Thousand Eyes