🎥Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas, As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw A Glimpse of Beauty

Lost, Lost, Lost (1976), dir. Jonas Mekas

"As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of Beauty " by Jonas Mekas @jonas.mekas Cassis,France 1966-2013 #MissoniGetInspired #jonasmekas #missonisurfaceconversion https://www.instagram.com/p/B_7udnZKRPq/?igshid=1g0h5mdbhkte3

• Jonas Mekas: "Don't we have enough ugliness already? And don’t we know these things already? Why always fight ugliness with ugliness, stupidity with stupidity, displaying still more and more of it? Why not create something beautiful to fight the ugliness with...fight ugliness just by being there, by emanating beauty, peace, truth." • Since we’re on an avant-garde film royalty roll call, the Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, poet, and archivist, “godfather of American avant-garde cinema” founder and director of the Anthology Film Archive,  Jonas Mekas,  fits smack dab in the middle. Here at his apartment, October 1987, a mere 65 years old at that point, he and Allen’s lives & creative outputs crisscrossed for almost four decades.  (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Library / Allen Ginsberg Estate) • #jonasmekas #anthologyfilmarchive #lithuanian #avantgardefilm #experimentalfilm #FilmmakersCinematheque #poetrycommunity #poets #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #cinema • (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5fxKgDBtHo/?igshid=1ik5gwynp2pz0

As i was moving ahead occasionally i saw brief glimpses of beauty, Jonas Mekas

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) photo: Hollis Milton