© 2007, Scali 
Pagination: 321 pages
Date de publication: 2007
Langue: Français
ISBN: 9782350120645

Mythical legend of American independent cinema, witness and inspirer of the avant-garde, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922 and emigrated to New York in 1944, is known for writing a new cinema, the "ciné-journal", which consists of recording his daily life. With a tone that challenges the aesthetics of the genre and commercial cinema, his style is taken up today by many filmmakers. A herald of the counter-culture and the beat movement, Jonas Mekas currently directs the Anthology Film Archives, the New York film library of avant-garde cinema. From Andy Warhol to Norman Mailer, through John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jean Renoir, Al Pacino, Jackie Onassis, Robert Frank, Henri Langlois, Allen Ginsberg...