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From Quotes by Jonas Mekas
- Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends,…
- My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my…
- Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on…
- I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with…
- I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day…
- Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change…
- I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable…
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