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Jonas Mekas

Excerpt from I Seem to Live. The New York Diaries, vol. 1

By Jonas Mekas
March 18, 2020
Read an exclusive selection from Jonas Mekas's recently published diaries, spanning his arrival in New York and his first Bolex camera

Statement

By Jonas Mekas
February 21, 2019
A beautiful insanity: A 1964 statement from the filmmaker and renaissance man on his arrest for screening Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures