Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it forms an epic, personal meditation on community, creativity, and the passage of time.
A loose collection of scenes in Hong Kong shot over a five-year period, this film begins with the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and ends right before the summer of 2019, when large-scale social unrest and violent resistance erupted.
Made over six years in the hotels of six different countries, Hotel Diaries charts the 'War on Terror' era of Bush and Blair through a seven-part series of video recordings that relate personal experiences to the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel/Palestine.
A woman walks, loves, eats and washes herself, dances. It all takes place in a bedroom. At times flashbacks, or visualizations of previous or following scenes.
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
For years, together with his partners from the production company O Quadro, he has been betting on cinema as a tool to explore the typical issues of youth.
One of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated 'diary films.
A filmed diary which chronicles two visits to the Olivas, a family of Spanish beekeepers from Salamanca, at the time of the honey harvest, in August and September.
IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, preserves a long-gone-Colonial-era wonder at natural resources, "primitive" tribes, customs and costumes in Europe's cast African possessions, and implies that the "dark continent" could benefit from the "civilizing" influences of home.
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
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Jonas Mekas - Walden (part I )
"um dos principais dinamizadores do pequeno universo underground da Nova Iorque de 60 e nossa percepção dessa avant-garde não seria a mesma ...
Walden Diaries Notes & Sketches (1969) "I dont search anything i am happy"
a Documentary by Jonas Mekas "Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: ...
Walden: Diaries Notes and Sketches (Walden: Diarios notas y esbozos) #21MIDBO
Walden: Diaries Notes and Sketches (Walden: Diarios notas y esbozos) Jonas Mekas Estados Unidos / 1964 - 1969 / 180 min. Filmado entre 1964 y 1968 ...
Luigi Porto - On Walden (homage to Jonas Mekas)
Video is an extract from "Walden - Diaries Notes and Sketches" Jonas Mekas 1969. Music: "On Walden" by Luigi Porto from "My My After World" (2004) ...
J Mekas 'Diaries Notes & Sketches a.k.a. Walden'
Film 16 mm shown as video projection colour and sound at Tate Liverpool.
WALDEN
Director: Jonas Mekas. País / Country : USA. Año / Year: 1959. Duración / Running time :180 Género/ Genre: Exoerimental SINOPSIS: Rodada entre 1967 y ...
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