Todd Haynes excitingly captures an era’s explosion of creativity, one that bespoke new and challenging kinds of freedom.
The film is but one deliberately imperfect piece of a vast slipstream.
Mekas has remained truly underground in the home-video world—until now.
This robust Blu-ray presentation is likely to remain the most important home-video release of 2015.
Mekas’s camera is never passive, often seeming to feed upon sensation that energizes it to the point of jittery transcendence.
Maya Deren’s passion for movement was so great that her friends remarked she could have been a dancer.
Sleepless Nights Stories wrestles often with the intersections of the artistic and the personal.
São Paulo International Film Festival 2011: Twenty Years Later, The Songs, & Sleepless Night Stories
Eduardo Coutinho’s Twenty Years Later is a film about a film. Sort of.
Walden more closely resembles the written diaries of poets like Ginsberg and Kerouac than the canonized publication whose title Mekas cribbed.
Walden set a precedent of postmodern fecundity in the form that has yet to be matched.
Is there a less diluted apogee of the gonzo-autuerist ideal than artist, critic, and avant-garde cheerleader Jonas Mekas?
A vital, confounding, surprising, confrontational collection of underappreciated American films.
Jonas Mekas has often said that he considers himself a “filmer” rather than a “filmmaker,” but what he’s actually saying is that he’s not an editor.
As documented by Mary Jordan, Jack Smith’s art was incontrovertibly tied up with his vengeful, assaultive personality.
I do! And this isn’t it. The interactive menus are pretty though.
Through his use of green screen and montage, Peter Rosen seems to want to position his film as its own work of pop art.