Jonas Mekas, an underground filmmaker whose influence ... pieces for which he became best known. In one film, 1969's Walden, roughly edited home movies are threaded with interstitial title cards ...

When “Walden” premiered in 1969 ... York also have a strange quality of self-consciousness or distance. “Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running,” at the Jewish Museum, is Mekas ...

Jonas Mekas’ 1968 “Walden” is a warmhearted act of remembrance; Horackova’s “Walden” rarely allows the warmth to penetrate beyond the surface.

For a brief moment a page with typewriter script flashes the name “Walden” on the screen. This is Jonas Mekas’ seminal avant-garde film from 1969. Ninety-three-year old Mekas is showing his ...

In October 1949, Jonas Mekas arrived in New York City broke and nearly broken. The Lithuanian artist had survived a Nazi work camp and several years as a refugee, and was supposed to travel on to ...

Jonas Mekas: All of my past is in me ... MU: Much has been said about the nonlinear format of films like Walden. But you’ve said yourself you don’t see time as linear, anyway.

Avant-garde filmmaker, writer, and poet Jonas Mekas has seen many things ... will host a rare screening of Mekas' personal copy of Walden on 16mm film. The three-hour film has become known ...

Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running will be ... the license Mekas granted his audience at the 1969 premiere of Walden, in which he acknowledged that viewers might enter and exit his non ...

So it makes sense, then, that the filmmaker and photographer Jonas Mekas – often regarded ... And in his pioneering 1969 film “Walden,” Mekas stormed an anti-war protest with Allen Ginsberg ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jonas Mekas the Lithuanian-born director ... Other notable works included “Walden,” a 3-hour documentary about the New York art scene of the 1960s that features shots ...