Romain Duval, Jonas Mekas
Walden : un film expérienciel de Jonas Mekas
Author(s) Jonas Mekas
Format paperback book
Year 2024
Language(s) French
Pages 448 pages
Publisher La Lettre volée; 1er édition (18 mars 2014)
Description
During a trip to Millbrook, at Timothy Leary's place, fragments of broken paradise, among the most beautiful, sketch an edenic microcosm and a lesson in cinema that reveal the entirety of Walden, shot in the heart of the 1960s by Jonas Mekas. The study of the film proceeds with thematic and aesthetic analyses that embrace the magical heterogeneity of the fragments as well as their specific stylistic treatment. Poetic moments illuminated by ecstatic childhood memories, the images are charged with an epidermal sensuality that refines our perception. And because the camera paints a new poetic reality of movement and light in "tatters," Mekas revives with his Diaries, Notes and Sketches certain issues of modern painting.