Steidlville

Supporter of intimate and experimental cinematographical screenwriting for the Village Voice since its creation, co-founder of the Anthology Film Archive, at age 78 Jonas Mekas still doesn't care about Hollywood. Actor or witness of all the New York avant-gardes, where this Lithuanian refugee fled during the war. Having spent all his life with his Bolex camera, he never ceased writing a long intimate film from which these photograms were extracted. Jonas Mekas, himself, affirms that cinema »is just a photogram, one single photogram!« All along the book we encounter a great many of his friends such as Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Robert Frank, the Kennedy family, Salvador Dali, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Nico, Gerard Malanga, Allen Ginsberg, Henri Langlois, Stan Brakhage, Jack Kerouac, Lou Reed, Miles Davis and many others, without omitting all those moments, happy or not, which he captured with his camera and his malicious eye.