This weeks Sunday Video serves to announce To New York With Love, the forthcoming show of lithographs by experimental film maker, Jonas Mekas at Bas Fisher Invitational, an artist run alternative exhibition space currently managed by Naomi Fisher, Jim Drain, Kathryn Marks, and Agatha Wara. To New York With Love, in association with James Fuentes LLC will feature prints produced by Mekas at Columbia University. The exhibition will only be open only during Basel (December 1st – December 5th) however, in January, touched off by Mekas’ influence, the space will play host to a program of experimental films orchestrated by Kevin Arrow, Registrar at MoCA North Miami.
Here is an sample from Diaries, Notes & Sketches (aka Walden), Mekas’ first diary film:
Notes on the circus, an excerpt from Walden, a diary film by Jonas Mekas.
“Walden was Mekas’ first diary film, and it was edited as a collection of images gathered between the years 1964 and 1969. Its original title was Diaries, Notes, Sketches, which was the intended name for all of his films (they would each have different subtitles), though when it became too confusing for film laboratories to distinguish between films, Mekas abandoned the practice. He still kept Diaries, Notes, Sketches as a subtitle in Walden, Lost Lost Lost, and In Between, and the name is often used to designate his entire film oeuvre. The sketches in Walden refer to various films that, edited previously, were later included in Walden: Report from Millbrook (1965/1966), Hare Krishna (1966), Notes on the Circus (1966), and Cassis (1966) all occur within the film.” – Citation.
To New York With Love:
Reception: Tues. 7-10pm (vernissage)
Dates: Dec. 1st thru 5th
Hours: 11-7 (except Thurs’s Nocturne which will also close at 10pm)
This post was contributed by Thomas Hollingworth.
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