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GUNS OF THE TREES Mekas\u2019 debut feature was an earnest period piece from the same bohemian milieu as Shadows<\/em>, Pull My Daisy<\/em> and The Connection<\/em>. Uncharacteristically narrative, but still largely improvised, it follows the existential struggles of two couples \u2013 one black, one white \u2013 during the cold war era. Allen Ginsberg\u2019s off-screen declamations include the notorious line \u2018I dreamed that J. Edgar Hoover groped me in a silent hall in the Capitol.\u2019 <\/p>\n Jonas Mekas, Guns of the Trees, USA, 1962, 75 min<\/strong> Jonas Mekas, Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel, USA, 1968, 4 min<\/strong> Also screening Sunday 15 December at 6:30pm.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GUNS OF THE TREES Sunday 9 December 2012, at 8:40pm London BFI Southbank NFT2 Mekas\u2019 debut feature was an earnest period piece from the same bohemian milieu as Shadows, Pull My Daisy and The Connection. Uncharacteristically narrative, but still largely improvised, it follows the existential struggles of two couples \u2013 one black, one white \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jonas-mekas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSunday 9 December 2012, at 8:40pm
\nLondon BFI Southbank NFT2<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAssisted by Adolfas Mekas and Sheldon Rochlin. Poetic interludes Allen Ginsberg. Music Lucia Dlugoszewski. Folk songs Sara & Caither Wiley, Tom Sankey. With Ben Carruthers, Frances Stillman, Argus Speare Juillard, Frank Kuenstler.<\/p>\n
\nFeaturing Adolfas Mekas as the War Minister of Lapland<\/p>\n