A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Editing
Mekas's jump-cut poetry—decades collapse into single breaths.
Direction
The original vlogger, minus the monetization and plus soul.
Director
Jonas Mekas
Kenneth Anger
Self (archive footage)
Adolfo Arrieta
Self (archive footage)
Donatas Banionis
Self (archive footage)
Robert Breer
Self (archive footage)
Pola Chapelle
Self (archive footage)
Shirley Clarke
Self (archive footage)
Miles Davis
Self (archive footage)
Willard Van Dyke
Self (archive footage)
Hollis Frampton
Self (archive footage)
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Hanoun
Self (archive footage)
Ken Jacobs
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mekas invented the diary film as we know it—this is his magnum opus of the form, decades before anyone else thought their life deserved 149 minutes.
The title comes from a Banionis line about an actor waiting for meaning. Mekas spent his entire career refusing that waiting.
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