Shorts Program 2
Jonas Mekas Retrospective
February 17 - 23, 2022
This program collects three of Mekas’s shorter film diaries: Notes on the Circus gathers impressions from several visits to the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus; Notes for Jerome documents Mekas’s visits to Cassis with his friend, the filmmaker Jerome Hill; and In Between offers an evocative snapshot of a cast of Mekas’s friends, comrades, and fellow travelers.
Notes on the Circus, 1966, 16mm, 12m
Notes for Jerome, 1978, 16mm, 45m
In Between: 1964-68, 1978, 16mm, 52m
This program collects three of Mekas’s shorter film diaries: Notes on the Circus gathers impressions from several visits to the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, ecastically edited in-camera and suffused with wonder and movement; Notes for Jerome documents Mekas’s visits to Cassis with his friend, the filmmaker Jerome Hill, along with a coterie of Hill’s other friends (including Taylor Mead, Bernadette Lafont, and Charles Rydell), and was composed as an elegy for Hill a few years after his death in 1972; and In Between draws from footage shot for Walden, yielding an evocative snapshot of a cast of Mekas’s friends, comrades, and fellow travelers (including Salvador Dali, Richard Foreman, Shirley Clarke, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Smith, and many others). Notes for Jerome was preserved by Anthology Film Archives.
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