Paradise Not Yet Lost (Oona’s Third Year)
Jonas Mekas Retrospective
February 17 - 23, 2022
Paradise Not Yet Lost focuses entirely on the events of 1977, with Mekas movingly organizing the film around the figure of his then-2-year-old daughter Oona, aiming to provide her with a cinematic record of this early year in her life. Screening with: This Side of Paradise
More restricted in its scope than his other, more expansive film diaries, Paradise Not Yet Lost finds Mekas focusing entirely on the events of 1977. Divided into six sections, Paradise Not Yet Lost begins in New York, with fragments of Mekas and his family’s daily life and various visits and happenings around the city; from there, the film sprawls out to encompass a trip to Sweden, another journey to Lithuania (this time with Mekas’s wife Hollis and his nearly-3-year-old daughter Oona in tow), trips to Austria (to visit Peter Kubelka and Hermann Nitsch) and Italy, and finally, a return to NYC. Throughout, Mekas movingly organizes this material around the figure of Oona, aiming to provide her with a cinematic record of this early year in her life, a time she’ll barely be able to recall as an adult.
Screening with:
This Side of Paradise
1999, 16mm, 35m
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