LOST LOST LOST (US, 1976, Jonas Mekas)

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AN EXCERPT FRO JONAS MEKAS' LOST LOST LOST (1976). SOURCE: YOUTUBE.

 

In LOST LOST LOST, Jonas Mekas compiles fourteen years of filming, starting from his arrival in America as a political refugee through the New York counterculture of the ‘50s and ‘60s.

“The period I am dealing with in these six reels was a period of desperation, of attempts to desperately grow roots into the new ground, create new memories. In these six painful reels I tried to indicate how it feels to be an exile, how I felt in those years. They describe the mood of a Displaced Person who hasn’t yet forgotten his native country but hasn’t yet gained a new one. The sixth reel is a transitional reel where we begin to see some relaxation, where I begin to find moments of happiness. New life begins...” —Jonas Mekas

“The borderline is fading between an artifact — an œuvre d’art,’ conceived as such, a pure product of stylized imagination — and what can be described as a poet’s account of events; as sincere and as honest as only a poet’s account can be. Maybe Jonas Mekas’ LOST LOST LOST has just marked the beginning of a new genre. In the line of a Gide, of a Sartre, of a Malraux. But in film.” —Antonin J. Liehm, Thousand Eyes

LOST LOST LOST
(US, 1976)

Director: Jonas Mekas

  • 178 minutes
  • 16mm
  • Color, black & white
  • Sound
Distribution Format/s: DVD, DSL/Downloadable 1080p .mp4 file on server

Published By: Re:Voir Video

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