Three hours of home movies from a guy who barely escaped a Nazi labor camp. Trust me, it's incredible.
Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the struggle to build a new life in New York and his gradual discovery of a vibrant artistic community.
Editing
Mekas's flicker cuts create memory itself
Direction
Personal cinema as legitimate art form
Production
16mm grain that breathes history
Director
Jonas Mekas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mekas co-founded Anthology Film Archives in 1970, essentially creating the institutional home for exactly this kind of personal cinema.
The 'lost' in the title triples: lost homeland, lost footage Mekas thought destroyed, lost time he can never recover.
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