https://www.notesonattentionpaid.com/categories/avantegarde/ en Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:52:00 -0700 https://www.notesonattentionpaid.com/2022/01/10/this-article-on.html Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:52:00 -0700 http://mbkriegh.micro.blog/2022/01/10/this-article-on.html <p><a href="https://www.passport-journal.com/en/product/letters-home-jonas-mekas-adolfas-mekas/" title="Letters Home">This article on Letters Home, by Adolphus and Jonas Mekas</a> catches my attention&hellip;</p> <blockquote> <p>When Jonas Mekas died in 2019, aged 96, he left behind a monumental legacy. Widely recognised as the “godfather of American avant-garde cinema”, the auteur and poet’s boundary-breaking works propelled the New American Cinema movement of the 1960s and 70s to brave and brilliant new heights.</p> </blockquote> <p>… it mentions <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Anger" title="Kenneth Anger">Kenneth Anger</a>, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren" title="Maya Deren">Maya Deren</a> as friends and collaborators with Jonas Mekas… i know of two of the four…</p> <p>… Deren’s film, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshes_of_the_Afternoon" title="Meshes of the Afternoon">Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)</a> “has been one of the most influential experimental films in American cinema history… the film is short and can be watched through its Wikipedia page…</p> <p>… here lies a rabbit hole of substantial proportions…</p>