Screening Room with Jonas Mekas (1981) - Preview

Jonas Mekas - filmmaker, film critic, archivist, poet, lecturer and curator - is one of the leading figures of American avant-garde film and video. In addition to his many narrative and diary films that have screened extensively around the world, he has worked as editor-in-chief of Film Culture, movie critic for the Village Voice and co-founder of Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films. Jonas Mekas visited Screening Room in October 1981 to discuss the film preservation efforts of Anthology Film Archives and show and discuss his own work as well as films by other filmmakers, including Bruce Bailie, Maya Deren, and Joseph Cornell.

from the Screening Room series
by Robert Gardner

Previously distributed by Documentary Educational Resources

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Jonas
• Mekas
• experimental
• film
• documentary
• screening
• room
• robert
• gardner
• 1970s
• television
• education
• WCVB
• boston

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[Raoulesqueish]

Mekas is the man!

[natolinas]

kas keisto?

[eimantassakalauskas]

81. tai yra keista