CORRESPONDENCE JONAS MEKAS – J.L. GUERÍN

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Film Notes

This week we present an online engagement of one of the films we planned to screen in our ongoing, comprehensive retrospective of the work of Jonas Mekas: CORRESPONDENCE JONAS MEKAS – J.L. GUERÍN (2011, 100 min). The film was commissioned by the Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona (CCCB), as part of its “Correspondence(s)” project, in which filmmakers were paired together to exchange filmic “letters” (other participants included Isaki Lacuesta & Naomi Kawase; Albert Serra & Lisandro Alonso; Jaime Rosales & Wang Bing; and Fernando Eimbcke & So Yong Kim). CORRESPONDENCE JONAS MEKAS – J.L. GUERÍN is available now, for the low, low price of $1! And as a special bonus we are including two final letters, which Mekas & Guerín exchanged following the 2011 release of the feature-length film. Guerín’s final letter has never before been made available! Click here to access the full program.

Jonas Mekas & José Luis Guerín

CORRESPONDENCE JONAS MEKAS – J.L. GUERÍN

2011, 100 min, digital

“In a series of five letters to each other, José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas exchange ideas, thoughts, visions and reflections on cinema, realism and life. Each filmmaker revisits past images, framed by commentaries that offer telling insights into their working methodologies. This is a film about friendship and craft, about poetry and cinema, modes of communicating and fragments of life captured on screen. ‘I have a need to tape, for whatever reason,’ states Mekas, ‘I do not know what makes me do it, but I have to do it, I just have to do it.’ CORRESPONDENCE is both a visual trace of this journey and a memorable illustration of Thoreau’s dictum that ‘the world is but a canvas to our imaginations.’” –Maria Delgado, BFI

PLUS:

Jonas Mekas

A LETTER TO JOSÉ LUIS GUERÍN

2015, 8 min, digital

José Luis Guerín

CARTA A JONAS MEKAS no. 6

2016, 4 min, digital





[Please note: On our Vimeo page you can also find the following Jonas Mekas films (for viewing free of charge!): SELF-PORTRAIT (1980, 20 min), RE: MACIUNAS AND FLUXUS (2011, 93 min), KEEP SINGING (2011, 82 min), and HAPPY EASTER RIDE (2012). And Jonas’s classic works WALDEN and LOST LOST LOST are available for online rental via Kino Lorber’s KinoNow service. The films can be streamed for $9 each, with 50% of the rental income going to Anthology, to help us weather our closure. To access both films, click here.]