Datum: 6. Oktober 2022
Uhrzeit: 19.30
JONAS IN THE FIELDS (Musikfilm,104min, by Peter Sempel, Hamburg, FFHSH)
In Memory & Thankfulness, Jonas Mekas (24.12.1922 – 23.01.2019)
Synopsis: A personal film about lithuanian refugee Jonas Mekas, who, in New York, became a great inspirer for independent film, poetry and people.
Filmed mainly in Brooklyn, with son Sebastian, and many friends – like Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Julian Schnabel – at auction for the Harry Smith-Heaven & Earth Library; …then visiting Hamburg(Golden Poodle, and hooraying to be there… 🙂 ), Berlin, Leipzig, Kassel(documenta), for film- and book-presentations. Some flashbacks, and footage from Jonas-films, about “home”, feeling lost, and memory, then again with extreme positive energy.
Very alive memorial-events at St.Marks Church, AnthologyFilmArchives in East-Village, and in Birzai, the place of Jonas’ childhood, in the fields of Lithuania, with horses, a silver cow, and happy birds.
Jonas, who was called “Godfather Of American film-avantgarde”, often laughed: “I am a farmer boy.”
TRAILER
Music: Hamburger: Matthias Schuster, Das Institut, Saal 2, Bürgermeister Der Nacht, Peter Brötzmann, Auguste Varkalis, Now We Are Here Band, Jonas, Julius Ziz …
Guests: Sebastian Mekas, Hollis Melton, Oona Mekas, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Julian Schnabel, John Leland, Andy Lampert, Vyt Bakaitis, Michael Stipe, Phong Bui, Indra Drevinskaitè, Simon de Pury, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Heike Geißler, Anne König, Mario, Holger Steen, and friends…, …horses, cows and happy birds…