A Little Video on JONAS MEKAS

James Kalm captures a brief conversation with Jonas Mekas at the after opening party for the summer exhibitions at New York's PS1.

Before there was YouTube, before there was "Reality TV" before the inter-net, there were the films of Jonas Mekas. As one of the founding menber of the Anthology Film Archives he was the director of the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, a showcase for avant-garde films, and sought to establish a permanent home where the growing number of new independent/avant-garde films could be shown on a regular basis. Mekas—a longtime denizen and chronicler of Williamsburg—has become something of an unexpected poster boy for artistic perseverance. Like a hyper-hip, underground Zelig, Mekas has popped up next to, and has trained his camera on, some of the most electrifying people of the past sixty years.

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[viuzryta]

tas seniokas

[toleranceofculture]

@ataxify but earlier he used 8mm :}

[1iLLnoize1]

The name is not like that background voice pronounced [johna meankus], the correct pronounciation of Jonas Mekas sounds like [yo-nas meh-kas ]. So keep that in mind when talking about this great man.

[ataxify]

jonas uses 16mm bolex ;)

[maart0327]

it wasn't a great film, eh...

[toleranceofculture]

films on 8mm camera were the best. filmai su 8 milimetru kamera buvo geriausi :>

[fatalbertman]

James Kalm - what are you talking? :D

[marcostormy]

Jonas is the man.