Jonas Mekas: 2 books
Bum-Ba Bum-Ba
Conversations with John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
December 1970, Regency Hotel, New York City: After a spontaneous film festival in the Elgin theatre for which Yoko Ono and John Lennon had produced two new films in only two weeks, the organiser Jonas Mekas and the two artists sat together, exhausted and probably also very happy. They talk about how...
Movie Journal
The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
In his Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns, Jonas Mekas captured the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking. Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway elsewhere, yet they belonged...