Mekas’s career-spanning project of documenting his life, times, and relationships finds perhaps its grandest expression in his most monumental film diary. Covering nearly three decades of Mekas’s life—1970 to 1999—As I Was Moving Ahead is a vibrant, frenetic 16mm record of daily life, trips abroad (to France, Italy, Spain, and Austria) and domestic (Madison, WI; Cape Cod), birthday parties, picnics, his children’s first steps, the changing of the seasons. But above all else it is a tribute to the friendships and relationships that positioned Mekas to be able to see the titular “brief glimpses of beauty” in the first place—“life’s unexpected raptures” that both justify his observational filmmaking practice and provide inspiration to go on living and making his beloved “home movies.”

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