Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called “the godfather of American avant-garde cinema.” To celebrate the centenary of his birth. the Independent Cinema Office, Lithuanian Cultural Institute and curator Herb Shellenberger present the Jonas Mekas 100! UK Cinema Tour, showcasing some of Mekas’ most-celebrated films alongside lesser-seen works and tracing his influence in works that he inspired.
The Jonas Mekas 100! UK Cinema Tour will run in venues across the UK until December 2022. It features a rare chance to see three landmark works by Mekas in the cinema: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1976), depicting Jonas and his brother Adolfas’ return journey to their homeland, a film that was inducted into the United States National Film Registry in 2006; a new digital restoration of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, an epic, 4.5 hour-film that premiered to acclaim at the 2000 London Film Festival; and Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man.
Further details of the tour can be found on the Independent Cinema Office website
