Jonas Mekas, the father of American experimental cinema, underground, or whatever you call, comes to Madrid and will be on Tuesday 13 October
The brown dwarf with Pip Chodorov, from 20:00. Screened one of his most famous works, Walden (Yes, based, I guess it freely, in the work of Thoreau), part of its important newspapers filmed. But that's not all, because the next day, Wednesday 14, it will have in the Reina Sofía
also lecturing at 20:00. I try to go at least to the brown dwarf, if I run out of tickets (as happened recently with Jarmusch), so I will comment on here:).
PS: I promise a return post, that after so many months have to explain something, but this ad was too urgent!
Edito again to add an article about Walden
of essential Blogs & Docs.
leave here also the comment of the website on Walden The brown dwarf, which comes in handy:
WALDEN. NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS AND SKETCHES
"Walden" is a lake in the state of Massachuttes. They retired in 1845, the American thinker and writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1962) to discover the message that nature had to give, to find himself in the purest form that can living man (Emile Hirsch emulated the writer in Into the Wild). Thoreau wrote during his retirement "Walden, or Life in the Woods", and become a classic of American literature.
Lithuanian Jonas Mekas , one of the most important representatives of American experimental cinema, he spent three years filming his daily life, his travels, his encounters with various people, etc.. Each episode of this amalgamation, which took final shape in 1969, contains references to Thoreau's retreat, but the most palpable is the word "Walden" between each One chapter, except that the lake was Mekas Central Park.
Talk-talk with Jonas Mekas and Pip Chodorov on Tuesday October 13 at 20:00.
I Program
WALDEN
U.S.
Jonas Mekas. 16mm. 1964-69, 180min.
"Since 1950 I kept a diary filmed. He traveled the world with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons. Some ten days filming frames, others a second, some ten minutes. Or did not roll anything. When one writes a diary, make a retrospective process: you sit down, look back in your day and write. To keep a diary film, you have to react to your camera to the immediate, now, immediately, or you take it or you do not take anything. If you go back and wheels then it means starting over. To collect the reality as it is happening now requires a full understanding of the tools you're using, in this case the Bolex camera, must pick up the reality I'm reacting and also has to translate
my mood as I reacted. Which means that the structure (mounting)
has to be done there, during the filming, the camera. All the footage you see in the newspapers is exactly as you left the camera: there is no way to achieve anything in the editing room without destroying its form and content. Walden contains material from 1965-1969, together in chronological order. For the soundtrack I used some of the sounds collected during the same period of time, voices, feet, very sound of street passages of Chopin (I'm a romantic), and other sounds, some significant and insignificant others. "Jonas Mekas