Walden : diaries, notes and sketches /

"Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema"--Slip...

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Corporate Authors: Re:Voir Video (Firm), Microcinema, Inc
Other Authors: Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 (Director, Producer), Sitney, P. Adams, Conrad, Tony, Brakhage, Stan, Dreyer, Carl Theodor, 1889-1968, Lebrat, Christian, Chodorov, Pip, Richter, Hans, 1843-1916
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:English dialogue with French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese or Lithuanian subtitles; book contains text in French and English; closed-captioned.
Published: Paris : [San Francisco] : Re:Voir Vidéo ; Microcinema International, 2009.
Edition:1st draft ed.
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Summary:"Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema"--Slipcase.
Item Description:Title from container.
"Two DVDs, poster and a book with unpublished texts by 60 authors including the personalities appearing in the film"--Slipcase.
Book, housed with disc 1, is in English and French bound together back-to-back and inverted.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (140, 143 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.) + program notes (1 sheet, 33 x 40 cm. folded to 17 x 10 cm.)
Format:DVD; region 0; NTSC.
Production Credits:Directed by Jonas Mekas.