64 minutes of beautiful cowardice — the most stylish way to avoid Vietnam ever filmed.
Cinematography
Mekas shoots draft dodging like a melancholic home movie.
Acting
Kramer's Henry — all nervous charm and principled paralysis.
Direction
Adolfas Mekas makes 64 minutes feel like a manifesto whispered.
Director
Adolfas Mekas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adolfas Mekas was Jonas Mekas's brother — yes, THAT Mekas, godfather of American avant-garde cinema. The Mekas family basically IS underground film history.
Shot in 1968 but released into obscurity — this was radical cinema about radical cowardice at the height of Vietnam escalation, distributed through alternative networks that Henry himself might've used.
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