Jonas Mekas
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"This box brings together the key works of Jonas Mekas, one of the most prolific avant-garde film artists. Born in Lithuania in 1922, chased west by Soviet and Nazi forces, Mekas and his brother spent four years in German displaced persons' camps before arriving in New York in 149 where he started shooting 16mm films on exile, military domination and poetic freedom. He thus developed an epic, lyric and intensely personal diary style of filmmaking."--container. | The brig: Mekas' brutally realistic vision of the landmark Living Theatre stage production "The brig" depicting life in a US Marine prison. | Walden : diaries, notes and sketches: The first long-form diary film. An ode to life, friendship and the community of New York in the 1960s. | Reminiscences of a journey to Lithuania: A film diary account of Mekas' first journey home to Lithuania after WWII and 27 years away as a displaced person in New York. | Lost lost lost : diaries, notes and sketches: The melancholic film diary of an exiled poet discovering New York in the 1950s. Scenes from daily life as he discovers the vibrant new world around him. | As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty: Mekas' epic love poem to New York. A celebration of joy, family, friendships, travels and nature. Fragments of happiness and a never-ending search for moments of beauty. | Short film works: A collection of Mekas' personal and poetic short films spanning his life as a filmmaker.
Credits
- Cast
- The brig: The original cast of the Living Theater. | Walden : diaries, notes and sketches: Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas. | Reminiscences of a journey to Lithuania: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas. | Lost lost lost : diaries, notes and sketches: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas, Ken and Flo Jacobs, P. Adams Sitney, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Leroi Jones, Robert Frank, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Salvador Dali, Tiny Tim, Ed Emshwiller, Storm de Hirsch, Barbara Rubin, Peter Bogdanovich, Shirley Clarke, Taylor Mead. | Short film works: Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Rubin, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Adolfas Mekas, Hollis Melton, Oona Mekas, Sebastian Mekas, Ken & Flo Jacobs, Elvis Presley; Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.); Potemkine Films (Firm); Agnès B. DVD
- Re
- Voir Video (Firm); Jonas Mekas; Adolfas Mekas; David C. Stone; Julian Beck; Judith Malina; Storm De Hirsch; Bachmann (gideon); Chapelle (pola); Kenneth H Brown
Complete catalog record
Original source: Title from slipcase. | A set of key works by avant-garde film artist Jonas Mekas. | A booklet in French and English about each individual film, included with each disc. | The brig: Stage play written by Kenneth H. Brown; stage production by Julian Beck and Judith Malina.
Release: France : Potemkine Films : Agnès b : Re:Voir, 2012.
Physical description: 7 videodiscs (14 hr., 56 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 6 booklets | plastic | 4 3/4 in. | monochrome | polychrome | PAL | DVD video | all regions
Contents: Contents: Disc 1. The brig / filmed by Jonas Mekas ; edited by Adolfas Mekas ; produced by David C. Stone (1964 : b & w ; 68 min.) -- Newsreel : Jonas in the Brig / Storm de Hirsch (1964 : si., b & w ; 5 min.) -- Disc 2. Walden : diaries, notes and sketches (filmed 1964-1968 and edited 1969 : col. ; 180 min.) -- Jonas (excerpt) / Gideon Bachmann (1967 : b & w ; 6 min.) -- Disc 3. Reminiscences of a journey to Lithuania (1971-1972 : col. ; 82 min.) -- Going home (excerpts) / Adolfas Mekas ; Journey to Lithuania (excerpts) / Pola Chapelle (1972 ; 10 min.) -- Disc 4. Lost lost lost : diaries, notes and sketches (filmed 1949-1963 and edited 1976 : b & w and col. ; 180 min.) -- Disc 5-6. As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty (2 discs, 2000 : col. ; 288 min.) -- Disc 7. Short film works -- Cassis (1966 ; 4 min.) -- Notes on the circus (1966 ; 12 min.) -- Hare Krishna (1966 ; 4 min.) -- Report from Millbrook (1965-1966 ; 12 min.) -- Time and Fortune Vietnam newsreel (1968 ; 4 min.) -- Travel songs (1967-1981 ; 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.).
Subjects: Military discipline -- United States -- Drama | Lithuanian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York | Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography | Forced labor -- Germany -- Biography | Armed Forces -- Prisons | Emigration and immigration | Forced labor | Friendship | Homes | Immigrants | Lithuanian Americans | Military discipline | New York (N.Y.) | Lithuania -- Emigration and immigration | Germany | Lithuania | New York (State) -- New York | United States | United States Marine Corps -- Prisons -- Drama | United States Marine Corps | Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 -- Diaries | Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 -- Friends and associates | Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 -- Homes and haunts | Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 | Documentaries and Factual Films
Language note: In English, with English, French and Lithuanian subtitles; booklets in French and English.
Related works: Brown, Kenneth H. Brig.
Release: France : Potemkine Films : Agnès b : Re:Voir, 2012.
Physical description: 7 videodiscs (14 hr., 56 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 6 booklets | plastic | 4 3/4 in. | monochrome | polychrome | PAL | DVD video | all regions
Contents: Contents: Disc 1. The brig / filmed by Jonas Mekas ; edited by Adolfas Mekas ; produced by David C. Stone (1964 : b & w ; 68 min.) -- Newsreel : Jonas in the Brig / Storm de Hirsch (1964 : si., b & w ; 5 min.) -- Disc 2. Walden : diaries, notes and sketches (filmed 1964-1968 and edited 1969 : col. ; 180 min.) -- Jonas (excerpt) / Gideon Bachmann (1967 : b & w ; 6 min.) -- Disc 3. Reminiscences of a journey to Lithuania (1971-1972 : col. ; 82 min.) -- Going home (excerpts) / Adolfas Mekas ; Journey to Lithuania (excerpts) / Pola Chapelle (1972 ; 10 min.) -- Disc 4. Lost lost lost : diaries, notes and sketches (filmed 1949-1963 and edited 1976 : b & w and col. ; 180 min.) -- Disc 5-6. As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty (2 discs, 2000 : col. ; 288 min.) -- Disc 7. Short film works -- Cassis (1966 ; 4 min.) -- Notes on the circus (1966 ; 12 min.) -- Hare Krishna (1966 ; 4 min.) -- Report from Millbrook (1965-1966 ; 12 min.) -- Time and Fortune Vietnam newsreel (1968 ; 4 min.) -- Travel songs (1967-1981 ; 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.).
Subjects: Military discipline -- United States -- Drama | Lithuanian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York | Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography | Forced labor -- Germany -- Biography | Armed Forces -- Prisons | Emigration and immigration | Forced labor | Friendship | Homes | Immigrants | Lithuanian Americans | Military discipline | New York (N.Y.) | Lithuania -- Emigration and immigration | Germany | Lithuania | New York (State) -- New York | United States | United States Marine Corps -- Prisons -- Drama | United States Marine Corps | Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 -- Diaries | Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 -- Friends and associates | Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 -- Homes and haunts | Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 | Documentaries and Factual Films
Language note: In English, with English, French and Lithuanian subtitles; booklets in French and English.
Related works: Brown, Kenneth H. Brig.
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Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, creator, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
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