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Jonas Mekas “online”

Posted in Uncategorized by Rachel on April 1, 2009

…does not equate cinephilia with death. So adorable the intro to his online experiment, archiving the cine avant gard but also posting new minor experiments each day. Mekas’ documentation of a presentation by fluxus provacteur Ben Vautier on December 2, 2007, gives you some idea of how useful and unimportant the internet could be for local art and film histories.

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  1. Microcinema International said, on June 26, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    Hi there!

    I work for Microcinema International. We curate, exhibit and distribute the moving image arts. I recently created a Facebook Film Page for “Walden-Diaries, Notes and Sketches” by Jonas Mekas. If you are fan of Jonas Mekas, you will appreciate this experimental film. I have posted video clips from the film, photos, links and events, and I would appreciate it if you help me get the page “HAPPENING!” All you have to do are 3 things.

    1. visit the page link

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    2. become a fan

    3. suggest the page to your friends

    Thank you for all your help in advance.

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  2. Microcinema International said, on June 26, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    “Walden – Diaries, Notes and Sketches by Jonas Mekas” is EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED by Microcinema DVD. To order this DVD and/or other Microcinema titles, go to: http://www.microcinemadvd.com.

    Synopsis: With Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground,
    Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Yalkut, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, Richard Foreman, John Lennon, Yoko Ono…

    Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.

    “Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing…. Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order.”

    Jonas Mekas

    “Jonas Mekas’s films celebrate life. They rise up against the world’s overwhelming commercialism, attempting instead to revive the pleasures of friendship, a first snowfall or the return of Spring. Mekas’s genius stems from his generously including the viewer in his vision of the world, allowing us to (re)discover, in a simple image, the incredible force and necessity of poetry.”

    Yann Beauvais

    Includes two DVDs, poster, and 150-page book with unpublished texts by 60 authors including the personalities appearing in the film.

    SUBTITLED IN: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Lithuanian, and Japanese.

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