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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty is a 2000 experimental documentary film directed by Jonas Mekas. The film had its world premiere on November 4, 2000, at the London Film Festival and is a compilation of Mekas' home movies.
Dec 12, 2001 · As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty: Directed by Jonas Mekas. With Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Hollis Frampton. Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.
Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.
Oct 16, 2002 · Edited from diaristic footage of the artist’s life in New York between 1970 and 1999, it follows the circular, fragmented structure of the filmmaker’s own memory, which revolves around “brief moments of happiness and beauty” and refuses to analyze or deconstruct the past.
Mar 12, 2001 · As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. "It's the ultimate Dogme movie, before the birth of Dogme," is how 79-year-old Lithuanian-born independent mainstay Jonas Mekas...
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. 2000 4h 48m Documentary. List. Avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas reveals home movies of family and...
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Feb 24, 2023 · As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses Of Beauty is a five-hour long diary film assembled by hand providing an intimate glimpse of mekas life from an archive worth over 30 years.
Dec 12, 2001 · As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - Metacritic. 2001. Canyon Cinema. 4 h 48 m. Summary The American premiere of Jonas Mekas's film diaries from 1970-1999. Documentary. Biography. Directed By: Jonas Mekas. Written By: Jonas Mekas.
Covering nearly three decades of Mekas’s life—1970 to 1999— As I Was Moving Ahead is a vibrant, frenetic 16mm record of daily life, trips abroad (to France, Italy, Spain, and Austria) and domestic (Madison, WI; Cape Cod), birthday parties, picnics, his children’s first steps, the changing of the seasons.
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty Jonas Mekas, 2000, 288 min, 16mm. "The film is a first: the home movie as epic. A fleeting storm of a film, with pockets of rhythms that suggest the ebb and flow of a naturally unfolding event" – Elvis Mitchell.
