In honor of Mekas, keep cinema alive by going to the cinema. Shoot film, shoot video, shoot with your heart and your kino-eye. Jonas loved cinema, and he also loved music. Support your local musicians. Go see musicians perform and put dollars in the hat. Laugh and dance with them. Keep the avant-garde sounds snd sights alive, wherever you may be. Think the world through poetics, like Mekas tried so hard to keep alive. And if you imbibe, have a fernet and toast to his spiritus.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 3:17 AM Scott Hammen <scott.ham...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since some Frameworkers may not see (or care about) Facebook, I thought > this post from Tara Merenda Nelson > should reach them anyway: > > Jonas Mekas was a great filmmaker, but to me his greatest legacy will be > his cooperative, collaborative work in service to experimental film. He > wasn’t in it for himself alone; he understood that filmmaking requires > community, and he showed up for our community in every way possible. When > nobody would write about avant garde film, he started a column in the > newspaper, then a critical journal in which other artists could contribute > their own thoughts. He worked with artists to promote and distribute their > films all over the world. He saw the importance of preserving the films > made by artists long before there was popular support for such a thing. In > every interview I have read, he tells the stories of others, anyone who > helped shoot or made connections or drove the van. His films are full of > people, real people whom he loved and cared about, not just as characters > or subjects. He showed up for screenings, participated in discussions, and > shared his movies with everyone until the day he died. > Sometimes I get very discouraged by the disgraceful history of the > American avant garde, and by the increasingly self-serving, capitalist > model that has nearly taken over the practice of making and showing > experimental film. But losing Jonas today has gotten me fired up to do > better, and to carry on the practice of contributing to the community that > Jonas and his collaborators helped build in the first place. > Filmmaking is a community, not a competition. > Long Live Experimental Cinema! > Cheers Jonas. > > > <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215681385642563&set=a.10203074170990076&type=3&eid=ARBBwXc4TZsTrYdPR7Vsn2pQ_liWj8EIgNfNOYsvHL1N5caGhVQVngByE2bTJreUXfegDts76D2OuT37> > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 18:04, FrameWorks Admin <framewo...@re-voir.com> > wrote: > >> Yes he passed away early this morning, peacefully at home. >> He was 96 and still very active. He already prepared two books to be >> released this spring. >> There will be a Buddhist ceremony in the near future. >> - Pip Chodorov >> >> >> >> On Jan 23, 2019, at 5:58 PM, Jonathan Walley <wall...@denison.edu> wrote: >> >> Hello Frameworks community, >> >> I’ve just heard that Jonas Mekas has died: >> >> http://www.artnews.com/2019/01/23/jonas-mekas-key-experimental-filmmaker-dies-96/ >> >> I wish I had something compelling to say at this point, but I’m stunned >> into silence for the moment. >> >> All best wishes to everyone, >> Jonathan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> > > > -- > 06.88.08.50.61 > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > -- ....... "Impotent beauty hates understanding...but beauty cannot act."
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