He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Date: 5 January 2013 | Season: Jonas Mekas

HE STANDS IN A DESERT COUNTING THE SECONDS OF HIS LIFE
Saturday 5 January 2013, at 3:20pm
London BFI Southbank NFT2

In the film diaries from 1969-84, Mekas continues in the style of Walden (1969) but his attention shifts from the avant-garde film community to the friendships and intersections of a wider social circle. There are weddings, birthdays and children but this is no ordinary home movie – the filmmaker spends summer in Long Island with Lee Radziwill and the Kennedy family, and continues to document art events such as the Fluxus dumpling party attended by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Jonas Mekas, He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life, USA, 1985, 150 min
with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Alberto Cavalcanti

Also screening Monday 14 January at 8:10pm.

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