JONAS IN THE FIELDS

Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) – A personal film about lithuanian refugee Jonas Mekas, in New York, ‘Godfather of American Filmavantgarde’, great inspirer for independent film, poetry and people. In Brooklyn, with son Sebastian, many friends - at Anthology, N.Y., visiting Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Kassel(documenta), Lithuania, ...about “home”, feeling lost, and memory, …Jonas often laughed: “I am a farmer boy.”

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Trailer

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photos © Peter Sempel