Excerpts from Walden : diaries, notes and sketches / by Jonas Mekas.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Mekas, Jonas, 1922- director.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mekas, Jonas, 1922-.

Mekas, Jonas.

Genre:

Experimental films.

Short films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (14 minutes)

Contained In:

Contained in (manifestation): Masterworks of American avant-garde experimental film, 1920-1970

Other Title:

Walden : diaries, notes and sketches

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Filmmakers Showcase, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The viewer shares in Mekas' daily intimacies with family, friends and lovers as they envelope the screen in pulses of audio-visual stimuli. His world becomes yours, and the immersive nature of the cinema experience is broadened to include an onslaught of perceptual associations derived from the rapid-fire barrage of sound and images. Mekas expounds upon New York City much in the same way that Marcel Proust would focus on a Madeleine cookie as a portal for extended recollections on the passage of time and memory. Two sequences from Jonas Mekas' 3 hour epic reveal prime aspects of his diary filmmaking. The first show us a car trip to New Jersey with friends; the second dives headlong into an audio-visual sensory overload at a wild dance party. Each very basic and direct, the results are haiku-like vivid experiences. 16mm 1.37:1 color sound except end of Reel 5 and beginning of Reel 6; music by Frédéric Chopin, Group Image; with Gideon Bachman, Adolfas Mekas, Jonas Mekas, Hella Hammid, Willard Van Dyke, Shirley Clarke, Wendy Clarke, Marilyn Gottlieb-Roberts, Ed Emswhiller.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed January 02, 2018).

OCLC:

1022761754