It was the evening when Venus and Jupiter were perfectly aligned and reached its closest point to the human eye. I was getting ready for dinner with the “godfather” of American avant-garde cinema – Jonas Mekas. Filmmaker, poet and curator, Mekas is a living monument. He fled his native Lithuania at age 22, trying to [...]
Tag Archives: Anthology Film Archives
Richard Kern at Anthology Film Archives
September 23, 2011 – 1:44 pm
Anthology Film Archives will be screening two programs of films by Richard Kern this weekend. Shot in the 1980′s on Super-8 and originally distributed on VHS , the films are described by Anthology as as “darkly comedic, shocking, sexy, disturbed, debauched, violent, and really quite wonderful.” They feature the likes of Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, David [...]
DIY: Zero Film Festival 2009
November 26, 2009 – 9:41 am
My friends and I made a film once. It was a short film, and by short I mean under five minutes in length. We shot for ten hours and we ran out of money, even though nobody got paid and the set was mostly duct tape. And we never finished it. And it sucked. The [...]
