{"id":66,"date":"2011-08-21T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T14:53:33","slug":"sleepless-nights-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/2011\/08\/21\/sleepless-nights-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepless Nights Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-284\" title=\"Jonas Mekas: Sleepless Nights Stories\" src=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Mekas-SleeplessNights-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Mekas-SleeplessNights-4.jpg 435w, https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Mekas-SleeplessNights-4-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 22 October 2011, at 9pm, NFT3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sleepless Nights Stories<\/strong><br \/>\nJonas Mekas | USA 2011 | 114 min<br \/>\nJonas Mekas\u2019 opening confession that he suffers from insomnia will come as no surprise to anyone aware of his singular contribution to cinema. Over 50 years he has established and promoted a viable culture for truly independent and avant-garde filmmaking, and his recent acceptance by the art world has brought a long overdue wave of attention and success. <em>Sleepless Nights Stories<\/em> is the latest in the series of long-form diary films that Mekas has been making since his arrival in the USA in 1949. Eating, drinking, singing and dancing with friends, the tireless octogenarian is full of life and wonder, casually weaving together contemporary folk tales collected during travels across the globe. Marina Abramovic fantasizes about domesticity, Lee Stringer recounts an episode from his crack-addicted past, and the protagonist toasts the \u2018working class voice\u2019 of Amy Winehouse. Marina Abramovic, Bj\u00f6rk, Harmony Korine and Patti Smith also appear. Treating significant and inconsequential moments with equal import, Mekas\u2019 modern day saga presents the first episodes from his ambitious \u20181001 Nights\u2019 project. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Webber<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also screening on:<\/strong>`<br \/>\nTuesday 18 October 2011, at 9pm, VUE3<br \/>\nThursday 20 October 2011, at 7pm, STUDIO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 22 October 2011, at 9pm, NFT3 Sleepless Nights Stories Jonas Mekas | USA 2011 | 114 min Jonas Mekas\u2019 opening confession that he suffers from insomnia will come as no surprise to anyone aware of his singular contribution to cinema. Over 50 years he has established and promoted a viable culture for truly independent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8,14,18,29,16],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-weekend","tag-8","tag-films","tag-jonas-mekas","tag-lff-2011","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}