I just finished giving a presentation on Jonas in one of my classes at SVA. he's been a personal hero of mine for a while and and joy to meet at each screening he's been having lately at Anthology.
about three weeks ago I sat through his five hour epic *As I Was Moving Ahead I Occasionally Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty* with a 30min intermission with free food and beer provided by whole foods. Jonas was there and I squealed cause I happened to be next to him and opened his beer for him! It was the most remarkable film I've ever seen and I've proclaimed that if I had the choice, it would be the last film I see before I die. for those of you in NYC, be sure to check out the program at Anthology in the coming weeks, there's a lot to see that will blow your minds and hearts away. -brian taxiplasm.net On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Steve Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There also is a page with some free downloads > > http://www.jonasmekas.com/free_downloads.html > > and an email list > > http://www.jonasmekas.com/subscribe.php > > a bunch of them are on youtube > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=hXLnoxxHsAM > > just look at related and the mekas tag for more. > > J Hoberman said at the SF Int film festival the other day that Mekas > along with Sarris were the two biggest influences on him. > > a good piece on him and his work > > http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/mekas.html > > > S.F. CINEMATHEQUE > Thursday, January 30, 1986: > > HE STANDS IN A DESERT COUNTING THE SECONDS OF HIS LIFE (1985) by Jonas > Mekas > , > 2 hours and 30 minutes, color, sound. > "HE STANDS IN A DESERT... is a continuation of my film diaries. The > footage > covers the period from 1969 to 1984. During the same period I shot much > more footage than what you see in HE STANDS ... I am including in this > film only the most impersonal footage. Originally, I was planning to call > this film "Anthropological Sketches." > > It consists of scenes, sketches of people, activities, happenings, events > outside or almost outside of my life which I am observing from a > slight > distance. There are some sketches > that are from my personal life, I included them for the balance, to warm > up > the impersonal material. There will be two more films from the same > period: > one will include all my "personal" material (home, friends), the other all > my "abstract" material. I struggled for a long time trying to combine all > these three kinds of different footage into one film, but I had to give > up. > I couldn't do it. So this is the first film in the trilogy." > > Jonas Mekas, 1985 > > "You keep a diary & the diary will keep you." Mae West, to Peter Beard > > http://brooklynrail.org/2006/03/poetry/end-of-the-year-letter-to-friendsJan > 3, 2003 > > -- > Steve Rhodes > > http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos > > > http://twitter.com/tigerbeat > > http://del.icio.us/tigerbeat interesting articles & sites > > > http://ari.typepad.com > > http://tigerbeat.vox.com blogs > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Brian Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 210-683-6027 taxiplasm.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
