Does this mean the videos and their captions, which were available separately, have been edited together and assembled chronologically, so that, for example, they could be put on a set of DVDs or Blu-rays? I ask because I downloaded all of them at the time and they’ve been sitting on a hard drive ever since because I’m too busy to attempt such a task.
> On Jan 30, 2015, at 12:49 PM, LBurchill <[email protected]> wrote: > > admission $6, Jonas Mekas in person > > Microscope is extremely pleased to announce the screening premiere of the > complete “365 Day Project” by Jonas Mekas, a nearly 38-hour video project > composed of 365 individual videos posted daily on his website in 2007. The > work will be screened across twelve programs, one each month of 2015, with > part one “January” launching the series on Friday January 30th. > For “365″, as the project is more commonly known, Mekas challenged himself to > make and upload a video on his website every day for an entire year. Despite > the occasional technical or emotional close call, Mekas persevered capturing > snowstorms, friendly birds and squirrels, historical news reports, gathering > with friends and lots of music both at home in Brooklyn and during his > travels abroad, at times repurposing or incorporating previously unseen > footage from his earlier 16mm films or analog videos. > Originally each of the videos, ranging from under 30 seconds to 30 minutes, > were immediately made available for download and playable on smartphones at a > time which was well before watching content in this manner was ordinary – > Facebook had just been made publicly accessible and the first iPhone was > released that same year. Highlights from Part One (Days 1 – 31) include > original artworks and writings by Apollinaire, a visit to Louise Bourgeois on > her 95th birthday, a tour of the Castle of the Marquis de Sade with Taylor > Mead and Jerome Hill, a spontaneous music performance in the lobby of > Anthology Film Archives with the artist Douglas Gordon, a day of the Epiphany > parade in Brooklyn, a conversation with Susan Sontag and Bela Tarr, and Mekas > listening to his radio at home among others. > “Every day of the year 2007 I placed on my website one new video usually > about three to ten minutes in length. By the time the project ended, I had > made 38 hours of completed video works, the equivalent of twenty feature > films… It was the most challenging undertaking I had ever done. The videos > deal with my life in Brooklyn and my many travels of that year. It’s personal > and anthropological (impersonal) at the same time. During my travels I relied > a lot on technical and other help from The Gang (Benn Northover, Sebastian > Mekas — I travel most of the time with the Gang) and Elle Burchill was always > ready at my Brooklyn station. You’ll see a lot of me and my friends, various > daily activities, gettings together, a lot of music, and a lot of events > around New York and Europe that year. The main challenge was to record it and > share it immediately with my many friends all over the world. Today I still > do the same, but not daily, with less pressure, on my website > www.jonasmekas.com <http://jonasmekas.com/>” - Jonas Mekas > Part One: “January” (Days 1-31) > by Jonas Mekas, video, 2007, 2 hours 55 minutes > The “365 Day Project” has previously been presented in its complete form as > an installation (playing on 12 or 52 monitors) at ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany); > Hermitage, St. Petersburg (Russia); galerie du jour, Paris (France) and 2B > Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. > > Microsope Gallery, 1329 Willoughby Ave, #2B, Brooklyn, NY 11237 > tel: 347.925.1433, [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > at Jefferson L train (Starr Street exit) > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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