Special Programme „Portraits of Jonas Mekas“  

 Jonas Mekas, Cinématon n°1590

Jonas Mekas is drinking red wine at the excerpt from one of the longest movie in film history.

Gérard Courant

Gérard Courant is a filmmaker, actor, poet and producer of independent French cinema. He created
one of the longest movies in film history called “Le Cinématon” which duration is 203 hours.

Selected Filmography

Carnets filmés, 1970–2019
„Tour de France“, 1972
Black Lake, 2019
Storm in Vézelay, 2019
François Truffaut and the Films of his Life, 2019

Anthology Film Archives

A short portrait of Anthology Film Archives, New York’s museum of independent cinema founded
by Jonas Mekas in 1970. Features interviews with some of the workers including Mekas and some
of his Lithuanian friends.

Pip Chodorov

Pip Chodorov was born in New York. He studied cognitive science at the University of Rochester,
NY and film semiotics at the University of Paris, France. He works in film distribution and is an
active member of Paris experimental film scene since 1994.

Selected Filmography

Landing, 1999
Charlemagne 2: Piltzer, 2002
Making of Dyn Amo, 2006
Wrong Moves, 2007
Butterfly Experiment, 2008
Free Radicals: a History of Experimental Film, 2010
Patrick Bokanowski: Making Un rêve solaire, 2017

Jonas Keeps Shooting Around

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas on the occasion of his 2002 retrospective in Paris (for his 80th
birthday). Through film clips and interviews, Mekas recounts his arrival in America, his early life in
New York and his first filmmaking experiences.

Pip Chodorov

Pip Chodorov was born in New York. He studied cognitive science at the University of Rochester,
NY and film semiotics at the University of Paris, France. He works in film distribution and is an
active member of Paris experimental film scene since 1994.

Selected Filmography

Landing, 1999
Charlemagne 2: Piltzer, 2002
Making of Dyn Amo, 2006
Wrong Moves, 2007
Butterfly Experiment, 2008
Free Radicals: a History of Experimental Film, 2010
Patrick Bokanowski: Making Un rêve solaire, 2017

Meanwhile a Butterfly Flies

The film is a portrait of Jonas Mekas, poet and hero of the American counterculture. Julius Ziz’s
poetic documentary is an intimate homage to his friend.

Julius Ziz

Julius Ziz was born in Lithuania now works and lives in Paris. He graduated from the Film Academy in Tbilisi before moving to New York, where he worked with Jonas Mekas at the Anthology Film Archives.

Selected Filmography

The Window, 1989
Silence, Sea and Marcel Duchamp, 1994
And the Pig was Born, 2000
He Turned His Face Against the Wind, 2004
Unfinished, 2005
The Wolf, 2008

Journey to Paris: Jonas, Adolfas, Pola

In 2003 Pola Chapelle, Jonas & Adolfas Mekas meet at the Cinémathèque Française to remember the time they have spent together. The spirit of the personages of this film are still enviously young.

Anne Maregiano

Anne Maregiano lives and works in Paris. She is interested in filmmaking portraits of the artists.
For seven years, she has filmed and made commissioned films on architecture, urbanism or art
history.

Selected Filmography

Timor Lorosae, Long Journey to Freedom, 2000
L’Asso, 2001
Charlemagne Palestine, the Golden Sound, 2010
Un autre souffle, 2013
Abdel Sefsaf, 2015
Senukų teatras / Le Théâtre des Chibanis, 2016