Jonas Mekas - Short Film Works

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This compilation of short film works brings together Jonas Mekas' many forms of expression throughout his career. At times funny, subversive, provocative, ironic, and fundamentally free, this panorama also shows us the sharp eye and acerbic wit that makes Jonas Mekas more than a filmmaker: a lover of life and people that he embraces with his camera, whose montages sing of eternity.

 This compilation of short film works brings together Jonas Mekas' many forms of expression throughout his career. At times funny, subversive, provocative, ironic, and fundamentally free, this panorama also shows us the sharp eye and acerbic wit that makes Jonas Mekas more than a filmmaker: a lover of life and people that he embraces with his camera, whose montages sing of eternity.

- Cassis (1966, 4 min.)
- Notes on the Circus (1966, 12 min.)
- Hare Krishna (1966, 4 min.)
- Report from Millbrook (1965-66, 12 min.)
- Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1968, 4 min.)
- Travel Songs (1967-81, 25 min.)
- Quartet Number One (1991, 8 min.)
- Imperfect Three-Image Films (1995, 6 min.)
- Song of Avignon (1998, 5 min.)
- Mozart, Wien & Elvis (2000, 3 min.)
- Williamsburg (1949-2002, 15 min.)

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19,90 EUR

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Publishing date: 

Sunday, November 4, 2012

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Runtime: 

98

Discs: 

1

Language: 

English

Subtitles: 

English, French and Lithuanian subtitles

Region: 

Multizone

Video: 

PAL

Colour: 

Colour

Sound: 

DD2.0

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Re:voir

RE:VOIR is a video label for classic and contemporary experimental cinema. The collection currently comprises over seventy titles, including films from the Dadaist, Surrealist and Letterist movements, as well as films from the American avant-garde, film diaries, arthouse features, animated works and hand-painted films. RE:VOIR is devoted to giving a wider audience access to a relatively...

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