FROM MY WINDOW. JONAS MEKAS 100!
25 August – 18 September, 2022
Marseille, Cassis
Jonas Mekas Centenary Programme
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Exhibition “To New York With Love” and screening at the ART-O-RAMA
Exhibition “To New York with Love”
DATE: 25–28 August
VENUE: ART-O-RAMA, The Film Gallery stand. 41 Rue Jobin, 13003, Marseille, France
Organized by The Film Gallery on the occasion of the celebration of its centenary, the exhibition “To New York with Love” presents 21 offset lithographs and the screening of the film “Walden (Diaries, Notes and Sketches)” (1968) by Jonas Mekas.
Screening of “As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty” by Jonas Mekas
DATE: 28 August, 14:00
VENUE: ART-O-RAMA at the Petit Plateau of the Friche la Belle de Mai. 41 Rue Jobin, 13003, Marseille, France
“As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty” shows the emotions, subtle sensations, and everyday joys as I perceived them in the voices, faces, and in the small daily activities of people I met, observed, and lived with… Things that I have recorded for years, as opposed to the spectacular, entertaining, sensational, and dramatic activities that dominate much of contemporary cinema. For all that, this film is not conceived as a documentary.” – Jonas Mekas
“Translating Mekas” events at the Centre international de poésie
DATE: 12–18 September
VENUE: The Centre international de poésie. 2 Rue de la Charité, 13002 Marseille, France
“Translating Mekas” is a programme of collective translation into French of Jonas Mekas’ poems supervised by the Centre international de poésie Marseille. The programme will consist of a periodic seminar conducted over two years. This seminar will bring together different groups of translators from Lithuanian into French and French-speaking poets with experience of translation and collective work.
Participants: Stéphane Bouquet (writer, poet, translator, scriptwriter, and film critic), Jean-Baptiste Cabaud (poet and translator), Roxana Hashemi (poet and translator), Anne Portugal (poet and translator), Ainis Selena (translator), Marielle Vitureau (author, translator, correspondent for Radio France Internationale and Courrier international in the Baltic States)
Public presentation of the “Translating Mekas” project and a bilingual reading of the first translated poems
DATE: 17 September, 15:30
VENUE: The Centre international de poésie. 2 Rue de la Charité, 13002 Marseille, France
Bilingual open-air reading of the first translated poems
DATE: 18 September, 17:00
VENUE: The Camargo Foundation. 1 Av. Maurice Jermini, 13260 Cassis, France
Public reading as a part of “Translating Mekas”, a program of collective translation into French of the poems of Jonas Mekas, supervised by the Center International de Poésie de Marseille.
“More Music for Jonas” by Arturas Bumšteinas with the ensemble C Barré at the Camargo Foundation
DATE: 18 September, 18:30
VENUE: The Camargo Foundation. 1 Av. Maurice Jermini, 13260 Cassis, France
Musical performance for chamber ensemble, electronics and voice recording of Jonas Mekas. This performance is an arrangement of a voice recording of Lithuanian-American experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas. As a basis for this music the voice-over from Mekas’ 1972 film “Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania” was used. The film tells the story of Mekas’ short return to his native village in Lithuania after 27 years of absence and narrates the memories and impressions in the author’s own voice.
Arturas Bumšteinas is Lithuanian sound artist and interdisciplinary composer working in various ways of materializing the sonic domain, as well as and resident at the Camargo Foundation.
Jonas Mekas film program at FIDMarseille and Videodrome 2
Screening of “Correspondence: Jonas Mekas – J. L. Guerin” by José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas
DATE: 14 September, 20:00
VENUE: FIDMarseille. 14 allée Léon Gambetta, 13001 Marseille, France
“After Abbas Kiarostami and Victor Erice, the CCCB in Barcelona has repeated the experience with this video correspondence between Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerin. Both travel, both work at home, both reflect on their practice and the world around them in relation to their common obsession with filming. Admiration and respect, Europe and the United States, springtime here and springtime there, seriousness and the joy of life. Crossed self-portraits that are addressed in images and sounds, and resolutely intended for everyone.” – Jean-Pierre Rehm, FIDMarseille 2011
Screening of the film “Lost Lost Lost” by Jonas Mekas
DATE: 15 September, 20:30
VENUE: Vidéodrome 2. 49 Cr Julien, 13006 Marseille, France
The filmed diary of a poet in exile who observes with melancholy the daily, bustling life of 1950s New York. “These six reels trace an era of despair, of desperate attempts to grow roots in new soil, to create new memories. . . . I’m trying to show what an exiled person feels, what I felt during those years. It describes the inner state of a ‘displaced person’ who has not yet forgotten his native country but has not yet acquired a new one. The sixth reel is a transition reel where you start to see peace, where I start to find moments of happiness. A new life begins.” – Jonas Mekas
With the participation of Cécile Tourneur.
Screening of short films by Jonas Mekas
DATE: 16 September, 20:30
VENUE: Vidéodrome 2. 49 Cr Julien, 13006 Marseille, France
“Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas” / 1992 / 34 min
“Travel songs” United States / 1981 / 23 min
“Williamsburg, Brooklyn” / 2003 / 15 min
“Cinema is not 100 years old” / 1996 / 3 min
With the participation of Cécile Tourneur.
Screening of “As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty” by Jonas Mekas
DATE: 17 September, 18:30
VENUE: Vidéodrome 2. 49 Cr Julien, 13006 Marseille, France
The international program Jonas Mekas 100! commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Lithuanian-born avant-garde filmmaker, film critic and poet Jonas Mekas in 2022. The program featuring various events was put together by the Lithuanian Culture Institute, the Lithuanian Cultural Attachés and the Estate of Jonas Mekas. Diverse events will take place in leading cultural institutions in a number of countries around the world. The program is partially funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
Calendar of Jonas Mekas 100! program: www.jonasmekas100.com
