{"id":5072,"date":"2013-01-05T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2018-01-25T14:53:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:53:04","slug":"stands-in-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2013\/01\/05\/stands-in-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><strong>HE STANDS IN A DESERT COUNTING THE SECONDS OF HIS LIFE<br \/>\nSaturday 5 January 2013, at 3:20pm<br \/>\nLondon BFI Southbank NFT2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the film diaries from 1969-84, Mekas continues in the style of <em>Walden<\/em> (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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonas Mekas, He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life<\/strong><strong>, USA, 1985, 150 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Alberto Cavalcanti<\/p>\n<p><em>Also screening Monday 14 January at 8:10pm.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/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-5072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jonas-mekas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072","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=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}