Showing posts with label Jonas Mekas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonas Mekas. Show all posts

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Notes on the Circus

US (c) 1966 Jonas Mekas. [from Diaries, Notes and Sketches]. 16mm, sound, Ektachrome colour, 12 min. Print: LUX. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 29 March 2008. Extremely fast montage on three-ring-circus motifs, dedicated to Kenneth Anger.

Friday, March 28, 2008

Report from Millbrook


Jonas Mekas: Report from Millbrook (US 1966).

Report from Millbrook (from Diaries, Notes and Sketches). US 1966. D: Jonas Mekas. 16 mm, 11 min. An oblique dokumentary about the LSD group experiments of Timothy Leary, with offscreen commentary of a participant and shots of Leary's house and the surroundings.

Hare Krishna

Hare Krishna (from Diaries, Notes and Sketches). US 1966. D: Jonas Mekas. 16mm, colour, 4 min. An experimental documentary based on rapid montage on a Hippie demonstration without protest. Make Love Not War.