Release Date

31 Aug, 2022

Runtime

01:38: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

"Catch some of the beauty, some of the happiness..."

For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he chronicled the trauma and loss of exile while pioneering institutions to support the growth of independent film in the United States. Fragments of Paradise is an intimate look at his life and work constructed from thousands of hours of his own video and film diaries-including never-before-seen tapes and unpublished audio recordings. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, and a man who tried to make sense of it all... with a camera.

Original Title

Fragments of Paradise

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Actors

Jonas Mekas

Amy Taubin

Peter Bogdanovich

John Waters

Martin Scorsese

Flo Jacobs

Ken Jacobs

M.M. Serra

Jim Jarmusch

Penny Arcade

Lee Ranaldo

Phuong Bui

Edita Mekaitė-Rubinienė

Ina Mekaitė-Guogienė

Greg Smulewicz Zucker

Lolita Jablonskienė

Vytautas V. Landsbergis

Hollis Melton

Oona Mekas

Sebastian Mekas

John Mhiripiri

Crew

KD Davison

KD Davison

Bill Kirstein

Michael Levine

Chris Tucci

Osei Essed

Saul Simon MacWilliams

Elyse Frenchman

Leanne Cherundolo

Matthew O. Henderson

Sebastian Mekas

George Kunhardt

Peter W. Kunhardt

Teddy Kunhardt