Like Donald Richie, Jonas Mekas is a film maker, writer and passionate advocate for cinema. Like Richie he also lived nearly all his life in exile. A Lithuanian, arriving in New York in flight from war-torn Europe, he launched into a long career of starting film magazines, film screenings and writing about the experimental and avant-garde cinema. In his highly personal film diaries he recorded not just many of the 'underground' events from the 1950s to the 80s as well as his own life, creating a unique body of work that is both a record of those eventful years and remarkable film poetry in its own right.Julius Ziz has chosen to make this homage to the 'father' of the avant-garde in Mekas' own film style: breathless, poetic, zany, often moving, Mekas talks - and sings - and is nearly always inspiring.
- Director
- Julius Ziz
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2002
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 52'
- Medium
- Betacam SP PAL
- Language
- English
- Producers
- French Connection, Rosângela Meletti
- Cinematography
- Jonas Mekas, Julius Ziz