To Free the Cinema
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To Free the Cinema

Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground

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To Free the Cinema

Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground

About this book

Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigr and fervent nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with either capitalist commercialism or the postwar rebellion against it. By focusing on his sensitivity to political struggle, however, leading film commentators here offer fascinating insights into Mekas's career as a writer, filmdistributor, and film-maker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. This collection of essays, interviews, and photographs addresses such topics as Mekas's column in the Village Voice, his foundation and editorship of Film Culture, his role in the establishment of Anthology Film Archives and The Film-Makers Co-op (the major distribution center for independent film), his interaction with other artists, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that followed Walden. The contributors to this volume are Paul Arthur, Vyt Bakaitis, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Rudy Burckhardt, David Curtis, Richard Foreman, Tom Gunning, Bob Harris, J. Hoberman, David E. James, Marjorie Keller, Peter Kubelka, George Kuchar, Richard Leacock, Barbara Moore, Peter Moore, Scott Nygren, John Pruitt, Lauren Rabinovitz, Michael Renov, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, and Maureen Turim.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1: David E. James: Introduction
  8. Chapter 2: Paul Arthur: Routines of Emancipation: Alternative Cinema in the Ideology and Politics of the Sixties
  9. Chapter 3: George Kuchar: The Old Days
  10. Chapter 4: John Pruitt: Jonas Mekas: A European Critic in America
  11. Chapter 5: Tom Gunning: "Loved Him, Hated It": An Interview with Andrew Sarris
  12. Chapter 6: Marjorie Keller: The Apron Strings of Jonas Mekas
  13. Chapter 7: Rudy Burckhardt: How I Think I Made Some of My Films
  14. Chapter 8: J. Hoberman: The Forest and The Trees
  15. Chapter 9: Vyt Bakaitis: Notes on Displacement: The Poems and Diary Films of Jonas Mekas
  16. Chapter 10: Richard Foreman: During the Second Half of the Sixties
  17. Chapter 11: David E. James: Film Diary/Diary Film: Practice and Product in Walden
  18. Chapter 12: Peter Moore: A Portfolio of Photographs
  19. Chapter 13: Maureen Turim: Reminiscences, Subjectivities, and Truths
  20. Chapter 14: Robert Breer: My Contacts with Jonas Mekas
  21. Chapter 15: Michael Renov: Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist
  22. Chapter 16: Peter Kubelka: Dear Friends
  23. Chapter 17: Scott Nygren: Film Writing and the Figure of Death: He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  24. Chapter 18: David Curtis: A Tale of Two Co-ops
  25. Chapter 19: Stan Brakhage: Jonas Mekas
  26. Chapter 20: Lauren Rabinovitz: Wearing the Critic's Hat: History, Critical Discourses, and the American Avant-Garde Cinema
  27. Chapter 21: Nam June Paik: Who Is Afraid of Jonas Mekas?
  28. Chapter 22: Bob Harris: Video at Anthology
  29. Chapter 23: Richard Leacock: I Feel Passionate about the Film Journals of Jonas Mekas
  30. Chapter 24: Jeffrey K. Ruoff: Home Movies of the Avant-Garde: Jonas Mekas and the New York Art World
  31. Appendices
  32. A. Jonas Mekas Autobiographical Notes
  33. B. Jonas Mekas Filmography
  34. C. Jonas Mekas Showcases I Ran in the Sixties
  35. D. Jonas Mekas Books Published
  36. Index