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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Jonas Mekas

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Jonas Mekas at IFFR

  • He travels. In search of…

    The legendary film-maker, chronicler, critic and poet Jonas Mekas has for decades abolished the distinction between professionalism and amateurism (in the original sense of disinterested hobby). With films like Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), to be screened in this programme, Lost Lost Lost (1975) and He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds […]

    • Master Homemovies
  • Mob of angels

    The legendary film-maker, chronicler, critic and poet Jonas Mekas has for decades abolished the distinction between professionalism and amateurism (in the original sense of disinterested hobby). With films like Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), to be screened in this programme, Lost Lost Lost (1975) and He Stands in a Desert Counting theSeconds of […]

    • Master Homemovies
  • Lost Lost Lost

    Recently restored three-hour diary collage tells the story of exile, displacement and longing. Completed in 1976 out of footage shot during an almost

    • Cinema Regained
  • Notes on Marie Menken

    Diary like portrait in which friends reminisce about the grand old lady of the American avant-garde: Marie Menken (1909-1970). She inspired artists su

    • Cinema Regained
  • Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    The first images shot with the film camera that Mekas bought in 1950 after arriving in New York form the ‘diary images’ of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The

    • Signals: First Things First
  • Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR

    Mekas watches television and that is addictive. A radical new diary film and reflection on the demise of the Soviet Union when the world looked on as

    • Signals: Size Matters
  • Film Culture 65-66

    Film Culture 65-66, 1978, issue on Paul Sharits, editor Jonas Mekas, 20,3 x 13,4 cm, collection Galerie A, Amsterdam

    • Exploding Cinema: Free Radicals
  • #18, Mahagonny

    Finally the restoration of the mythical Harry Smith’s final film, his magnum opus, based on the Weill-Brecht opera and a marvellously seductive and se

    • Cinema Regained