“Os meus diários cinematográficos 1970-1999. Abrangem o meu casamento, crianças nascem, o espectador vê-las a crescer. Filmagens da vida do dia-a-dia, fragmentos de felicidade e beleza, viagens a França, Itália, Espanha, Áustria. (…) Nada de extraordinário, nada de especial, coisas que nós todos experimentamos assim que atravessamos as nossas vidas. Há muito entre-títulos que reflectem os meus pensamentos desse período. (…) O filme é também um poema de amor para com Nova Iorque (…)”

biografia

Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Lithuania. In 1944, he and his brother Adolfas were taken to a Nazi labour camp. After the War he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz, Germany. In 1949 both brothers landed in New York, where they settled down in Brooklyn. Soon after Mekas got deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement. He is largely credited for developing the diaristic forms of cinema. He continues to write poetry and making films and he is active as an academic. Since 2000, Mekas has expanded his work into the area of film installations.

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