February2023
04
Through Feb 19
Jonas Mekas 100 anniversary programme at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Screening
Japan, Tokyo
Screening
Japan, Tokyo
Venue:
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum,
Japan, 〒153-0062 Tokyo,
Meguro City, Mita, 1 Cho
e−13−3 恵比寿ガーデンプレイス内
Organizers:
The three chapters of the program seek to tease out new angles of approaching Jonas Mekas’s film works, and expose his filmic practice in the broader context of the American avant-garde scene, emphasizing the impact of Mekas’s intellectual, organizational, and administrative activities; his devotion in fostering new habits of looking at film as an art form; as well as the diversity of contexts that inspired the filmmaker.
Guest Programmers: Inesa Brašiškė, Lukas Brasiskis
February 04 | 15:00 | Chapter 1: To Write History and to Be Written into History: Documents and Portraits of the New York Avant-Garde
Q&A session: Inesa Brašiškė, Lukas Brasiskis
February 10 | 15:00 | Chapter 2: Flâneur with a Camera
February 19 | 11:00 | Chapter 3: The Motion of Time and Eye: A Special Screening of Films by Marie Menken
More information available here.
Still from the film by Jonas Mekas "Award Presentation to Andy Warhol" (1964)
