I Had Nowhere to Go - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3959051468 ISBN 13 : 9783959051460

Editeur : Spector Books, 2017

Synopsis

"Jonas Mekas' diaries have an aching honesty, puckish humor and quiet nobility of character. Many readers curious about the early years of this seminal avant-garde filmmaker will discover here a much more universal story: that of the emigrant who can never go back, and whose solitariness in the New World is emblematic of the human condition." -Phillip Lopate

"I was enormously moved by it." -Allen Ginsberg

Legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas actually came to filmmaking relatively late in life, and his path to New York was a difficult one. In 1944, Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee Lithuania. They were interned for eight months in a labor camp in Elmshorn. Even after the war ended, Mekas was prevented from returning to his native Lithuania by the Soviet occupation. Classed as a "displaced person," he lived in DP camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel for years. It was only at the end of 1949 that Jonas and Aldolfas Mekas finally found their way to New York City.

A new edition of Mekas' acclaimed memoir, first published by Black Thistle Press in 1991, I Had Nowhere to Go tells the story of the artist's survival in the camps and his first years as a young Lithuanian immigrant in New York City. Mekas' memoir--the inspiration for a 2016 biopic by Douglas Gordon--tells the story of how an individual life can move through the larger 20th-century narratives of war and exile and tentatively put down new roots. In the words of Phillip Lopate, "This is a lyrical, essential spiritual anthropology."

Jonas Mekas (born 1922) lives and works in New York. Filmmaker, writer and poet, he is a cofounder of Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde film. An influential figure in New American Cinema and New York underground culture, he worked with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon and many others. Mekas' work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Douglas Gordon (*1966) ist einer der bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Videokünstler. Mit seinem Film I Had Nowhere To Go leistet er einen ganz besonderen Beitrag zur Documenta 14 in Kassel. Basierend auf dem literarischen Tagebuch des bekannten Filmemachers Jonas Mekas, schildert Gordons Film, wie Mekas vor den Nazis aus seiner Heimat Litauen flüchtet und nach Jahren in sogenannten Camps for Displaced Persons nach Amerika auswandert. Douglas Gordons Film ist keine bloße Nacherzählung, keine Adaption. Vielmehr ist es seine künstlerische Reaktion auf das beeindruckende Buch und seine Form an die Grausamkeiten zu erinnern. Die begleitende Publikation zeigt eine Auswahl von Filmstills, begleitet von Textauszügen aus Jonas Mekas Schilderungen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spector Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3959051468
• ISBN 13: 9783959051460
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: mail@spectorbooks.com; mail@spectorbooks.com; ; Harkortstraße 10; Leipzig; 04107; Allemagne