Jonas in the Field

127 East Congress Street,Tucson AZ 85701

18 September, 2022

Description

In Memory & Thankfulness, Jonas Mekas (24.12.1922 – 23.01.2019) A personal film about lithuanian refugee Jonas Mekas, who, in New York, became 'father of American avantgarde', a great inspirer for independent cinema, poetry and people. Filmed between 2015 and 2020, mainly in Brooklyn, with son Sebastian, and many friends,... at auction for the Harry Smith-Heaven & Earth Library; …then visiting Hamburg(Golden Poodle), Berlin, Leipzig, Kassel(documenta), for film- and book-presentations. Some flashbacks, and footage from Jonas-films, about “home”, feeling lost, and memory, then again with extreme positive energy. And very alive memorial-events at St.Marks Church, AnthologyFilmArchives in East-Village, and in Birzai, the place of Jonas’ childhood, in the fields of Lithuania, with a silver cow. Jonas often laughed: “I am a farmer boy.”