Filmmaker in person, pizza break at mid-point, admission $6. Free for Members
Microscope continues the 12-part monthly screening premiere of Jonas Mekas’s “365 Day Project”, with a Sunday evening screening of Part Five “MAY”. The diarist project finds Mekas returning throughout the month to thoughts of rebellion whether in the acts of others such as a reenactment of Paris May 1968 in the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, people surfing in a turbulent Munich river, or Jean-Jacques Lebel’s politically incorrect story about the poet Gregory Corso or through his own actions such as being evicted from a Nick Cave concert for illegally taping, reacting against a song that proclaims “Revolution is Over”, and in his 80s learning to smoke. MAY also features Maya Deren, Philip Glass, John Zorn, Raimund Abraham, Peter Kubelka, Viva, Michel Auder, Tonino de Bernardi, Nico Papatakis, among many others. But perhaps the most significant moment of the entire project happens at the Torino book fair when Mekas realizes why he began keeping a diary. Running time: approx. 3 hours Audience may enter and exit at any time. * About 365 Day Project* “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 many friends all over the world. Today I still do the same, but not daily, with less pressure, on my website www.jonasmekas.com” – Jonas Mekas additional info: www.microscopegallery.com Microscope Gallery, 1329 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237 Jefferson L (exit Starr Street), turn left on Willoughby, enter mid-block through open entryway. tel: 347.925.1433, [email protected]
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