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July 29, 2005
Jonas Mekas: linear on one level and totally unlinear on another
Over at 3am, Richard Marshall interviews filmmaking avant-garde-father Jonas Mekas, with this Mekas A before any Qs: "My movies are very linear. My movies are not jumping around. Let's face it. Time goes, my life continues, my friends are all around me, it's part of my life, people that I meet everyday and then I film my life. My friends. My films are horizontal. There is past, there is present. Of course I deal always with the present moment and life is continuing. There is no jumping around. Only when you make a film where you write a script or you have it in your head, an idea that you proceed to illustrate can you jump around. And whether it be connected with Hitchcock or Jarmusch that's how it is. But in real life film, I am the one who is connecting. But what I filmed yesterday might have no connection with what I might be shooting today. But it's the same person. The same strings that are connecting them all. So it might look like they're jumping but I have to do something with all of them. I'm the string. So they're linear on one level and totally unlinear on another." [A dozen or so more lengthy exchanges at the link.]
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