Best known as a poet in his native Lithuania, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) became a titan of US underground cinema after moving to New York in 1949. This week, Juliet talks to filmmaker/artist Chiara Ambrosio and curator/critic Herb Shellenberger about Mekas' life, work and legacy.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Films by Jonas Mekas

Film Magazine of the Arts (1963) - http://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/jonas-mekas-film-magazine-of-the-arts

Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1969) - https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/diaries-notes-and-sketches-also-known-as-walden

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069172

Lost Lost Lost (1976) - https://vimeo.com/217911753

Self-Portrait (1980)

The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained (1992) - https://vimeo.com/40317134

Zefiro Torna (1992) - http://retentionalfinitude.blogspot.com/2010/05/jonas-mekas-zefiro-torna-1992.html

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) - https://variety.com/2001/film/reviews/as-i-was-moving-ahead-occasionally-i-saw-brief-glimpses-of-beauty-1200467427

A Letter from Greenpoint (2005)- https://vimeo.com/229569417

Paris Hilton (2007) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3i8VBich1k

Texts by Jonas Mekas

Anti-100 Years of Cinema - http://www.incite-online.net/jonasmekas.html

Conversations with Filmmakers (2018) - https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/conversations-with-filmmakers-bremer-and-storz-publication-171018

I Had Nowhere to Go (1991) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9GWqYqPbew

I Seem to Live (2019) - http://jonasmekasfilms.com/books/index.php?book=I_seem_to_live

Scrapbook of the Sixties (2010)

2002 (dir. C. Spencer Yeh, 2015) - https://issueprojectroom.org/event/c-spencer-yeh-video

Robert Aldrich

Kenneth Anger - https://www.kennethanger.org/

Anthology Film Archives - http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/

Stan Brakhage - http://www.ubu.com/papers/tyler_parker-stan_brakhage.html

Bread and Puppet Theater - http://breadandpuppet.org/about-bread-and-puppet/other-links/peter-schumann

James Broughton

Un Chant d'amour (dir. Jean Genet, 1950) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RN_IDtPcNE

Shirley Clarke - http://www.projectshirley.com

Tony Conrad - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Conrad

Maya Deren - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/maya-deren-meshes-of-the-afternoon

Film Culture (journal) - http://www.ubu.com/papers/film_culture.html

Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin - http://www.artbook.com/9783959052023.html

Flaming Creatures (dir. Jack Smith, 1963) - http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/cteq/flaming/

For Life, Against the War (dir. various, 1967) - http://flahertyseminar.org/life-against-war

Allen Ginsberg

Beverly Grant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Grant_(actress)

Ken Jacobs - https://vimeo.com/kenjacobs

Peter Kubelka - https://offscreen.com/view/interview_kubelka

Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band - https://www.discogs.com/artist/1013031-Jim-Kweskin-The-Jug-Band

Jacques-Henri Lartigue - https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/print-sales/our-artists/jacques-henri-lartigue

George Maciunas - http://georgemaciunas.com/about

Gregory Markopoulos - https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2018/gregory-markopoulos

Marie Menken - https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-220-marie-menken

Hermann Nitsch - http://www.nitsch.org/index-en.html

Pull My Daisy (dir. Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie, 1959) - https://vimeo.com/92403607

Nicholas Ray

Ron Rice - https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/08/23/the-shooting-star-cinema-of-ron-rice/

Shadows (dir. John Cassavetes, 1959) - http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/cassoncass/shadows.shtml

Shoah (dir. Claude Lanzmann, 1985)

P. Adams Sitney

Susan Sontag

Stranger Than Paradise (dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1984)

Thanatopsis (dir. Em Emshwiller, 1962) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcVAPnFf20Y

HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden 1854)

Amos Vogel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Vogel

Andy Warhol

Walt Whitman