HE STANDS IN A DESERT COUNTING THE SECONDS OF HIS LIFE (US, 1969-1985, Jonas Mekas)
/The Diary Film was a significant form that has run throughout the history of American independent cinema, and whose major practitioner has been filmmaker Jonas Mekas. GME is therefore pleased to distribute HE STANDS IN A DESERT COUNTING THE SECONDS OF HIS LIFE as a DSL file to North American universities.
Shot between 1969 and 1985, the film consists of 124 brief sketches, each half-a-minute to about two minutes long. According to Mekas, these are “portraits of people I have spent time with, places, seasons of the year, weather (storms, snow, blizzards etc...) many of my film-maker friends- streets and parks of New-York- brief escape in nature, out of town- nothing spectacular, unimportant celebrations of life that has gone, by now, and remains only as a record in these personal, brief sketches.”
HE STANDS IN A DESERT COUNTING THE SECONDS OF HIS LIFE
(US, 1969-1985)
Director: Jonas Mekas
- 150 minutes
- 16mmmm
- Color
- Sound
Distribution Format/s: DVD, DSL/Downloadable 1080p .mp4 file on server
Published By: Re:Voir Video
Institutional Price: $500
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