JONAS MEKAS DOCUMENTARY FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE LICENSES CLIPS FROM GIDEON BACHMANN

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FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE, a feature documentary from award winners Kunhardt Films had it’s world premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968) featuring scenes of Jonas Mekas for director KD Davison’s intimate look at Mekas’s life and work. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, a story of a man who was also the most significant force behind the evolution and promotion of the American Avant- Garde film movement, and who tried to make sense of it all… with a camera.

Jonas Mekas in a scene from UNDERGROUND NY which appears in FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE.