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Artist:	MEKAS, JONAS
Title:	Walden - Diaries, Notes & Sketches
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	2DVD BOX/BOOK
Price:	$65.00
Catalog #:	MC 888DVD

"Special Edition Box Set featuring 150 page booklet and poster. Available for the first time on DVD! Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema. With Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Yalkut, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, Richard Foreman, John Lennon, Yoko Ono...
       'Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing.... Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order.' - Jonas Mekas
       'Jonas Mekas's films celebrate life. They rise up against the world's overwhelming commercialism, attempting instead to revive the pleasures of friendship, a first snowfall or the return of Spring. Mekas's genius stems from his generously including the viewer in his vision of the world, allowing us to (re)discover, in a simple image, the incredible force and necessity of poetry.' - Yann Beauvais
       Includes two DVDs, poster, and 150-page book with unpublished texts by 60 authors including the personalities appearing in the film. Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Lithuanian, and Japanese. Mono-NTSC 4:3."

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