Paradise Not Yet Lost (aka Oona’s Third Year)

Date: 5 January 2013 | Season: Jonas Mekas

PARADISE NOT YET LOST (aka OONA’S THIRD YEAR)
Saturday 5 January 2013, at 6:40pm
London BFI Southbank NFT2

The footage for Paradise Not Yet Lost was shot in 1977 and depicts the third year in the life of the filmmaker’s daughter. As Oona discovers the world at home in New York, and on visits abroad to Sweden, Lithuania, Poland, Austria and Italy, Mekas’ film captures memories for her future: ‘To provide her with a romantic’s guide to the essential values of life – in a world of artificiality, commercialism, and bodily and spiritual poison.’

Jonas Mekas, Paradise Not Yet Lost (aka Oona’s Third Year), USA, 1979, 97 min
with Hollis Melton, Oona Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Harry Smith

Also screening Tuesday 15 January at 8:40pm.

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