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Fragments of Paradise is an intimate look at his life and work constructed from thousands of hours of his own video and film diaries—including never-before-seen tapes and unpublished audio recordings. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, and a man who tried to make sense of it all... with a camera.
19. Juni 2023 · For Jonas Mekas, films were “fragments of paradise”, ways of capturing the glimpses referred to in the title of his copious 2000 film As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Caught Brief Glimpses of Beauty. That overwhelming five-hour work, stitched together from decades’ worth of Mekas’s 16mm home movies, is only the longest of many such diary films that Mekas compiled from his life as ...
With Fragments of Paradise, K.D. Davison situates Mekas as a key figure in the development of experimental, independent cinema in the United States. But the more or less chronological and highly informative tribute, divided in Mekas' style with intertitles, records both highs and lows. Because even there lies paradise-like beauty. Family members, contemporaries, and other familiar faces (Amy ...
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he chronicled the trauma and loss of exile while pioneering institutions to support the growth of independent film.
Fragments of Paradise es un documental dirigido por K.D. Davison. Año: 2022. Título original: Fragments of Paradise. Sinopsis: Durante más de 70 años, Jonas Mekas, internacionalmente conocido como el "Padrino" del cine de vanguardia, documentó su vida en lo que se conoció como sus películas de diario.
Fragments of Paradise. USA | 2022 | 98 min. | KD Davison. Using an endless supply of footage from his own home video and film diaries, this experimental doc lays out the complicated life of the unparalleled Jonas Mekas, the godfather of avant-garde cinema and founder of Film Culture magazine and NYC’s Anthology Film Archives.
Fragments of Paradise ist ein intimer Einblick in Mekas' Leben und seine Arbeit, der aus Tausenden von Stunden seiner eigenen Video- und Filmtagebücher zusammengestellt wurde – einschliesslich nie zuvor gesehener Bänder und unveröffentlichter Audioaufnahmen. Es ist eine Geschichte über die Suche nach Schönheit inmitten von tiefem Verlust und über einen Mann, der versucht hat dem Ganzen ...
