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

The DVD release of Jonas Mekas’ LOST LOST LOST is accompanied by his films THE BRIG (1964), WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972), and AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD OCCASIONALLY I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY (2000). His shorts CASSIS (1966), NOTES ON THE CIRCUS (1966), HARE KRISHNA (1966), REPORT FROM MILLBROOK (1965—66), TRAVEL SONGS (1967—81), TIME AND FORTUNE VIETNAM NEWSREEL (1968), QUARTET NUMBER ONE (1991), IMPERFECT THREE-IMAGE FILMS (1995), SONG OF AVIGNON (1998), MOZART, WIEN, & ELVIS (2000), and WILLIAMSBURG (1949—2002) are also featured in this publication.

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

Institutional Price: DVD or Blu-Ray Boxset: $800, Single Film DSL Title: $160

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