Shorts Program 1
Jonas Mekas Retrospective
February 17 - 23, 2022
Three tributes to three key friendships in Mekas’s life: Scenes of the Life of Andy Warhol follows Warhol between 1965 and 1982; Happy Birthday to John documents a small birthday party for Lennon, held in a hotel room in Syracuse, NY; and Zefiro Torna is an emotionally reverberant and deeply personal homage to Fluxus founder George Maciunas.
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol, 1990, 16mm, 35m
Happy Birthday to John, 1995, 16mm, 24m
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas, 1992, 16mm, 35m
Three tributes to three key friendships in Mekas’s life: Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol follows Warhol across a variety of settings and situations between 1965 and 1982, featuring cameos by the Velvet Underground, Edie Sedgwick, Barbara Rubin, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, and countless others; Happy Birthday to John documents a small birthday party for Lennon, held in a hotel room in Syracuse, NY following the opening of his and Ono’s Fluxus exhibition, which was designed by artist George Maciunas; and Zefiro Torna compiles footage of Maciunas shot by Mekas over the years, arriving at an emotionally reverberant and deeply personal homage to the Fluxus founder (and fellow Lithuanian).
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol
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