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Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas
Lithuanian Director
Born: Dec 24, 1922
Cinema Film Life Me Will You
Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life. Jonas Mekas
Life Angry You Walk Beauty Those See Poetry Remain Through Colors Support Smells Cannot Meadow Breathe Full Flowers
I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means. Jonas Mekas
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I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies. Jonas Mekas
Life Home Live Life Live Films Make Movement Movies Therefore Film
Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home. Jonas Mekas
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In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick! Jonas Mekas
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Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere. Jonas Mekas
Home Me Nothing Place Anywhere Means
We need less perfect but more free films. Jonas Mekas
Free Films More Perfect Less Need
There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses. Jonas Mekas
Other Cinematic Complete Way Through Than Official Frozen Break Senses Conventions
I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life. Jonas Mekas
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I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films. Jonas Mekas
Life Words Cinema Walk Own Think Films Other Has-Been About My Own Through Never Occasionally Making Material Camera Been Form In Other Words Scripts Working Film
Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands. Jonas Mekas
Videos Long Fragments Consist One Or Two Thousands Minutes Most Sketches Two
As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it. Jonas Mekas
Me Confused Desperate Poet Duty Way Those Solidarity Eye Out Seeking Feel Around Felt Always Misused Antenna Happening Who
When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period! Jonas Mekas
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