According to Wikipedia, Jonas Mekas is called the godfather of American avant-garde cinema.
Watch an excerpt from his 2000 film, "As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty." on YouTube here. It runs for only 2 min 29 sec.
"I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means. So when I began now to put all these rolls of film together, to string them together, the first idea was to keep them chronological. But then I gave up and I just began splicing them together by chance the way that I found them on the shelf.
Because I really don't know where any piece of my life really belongs, so let it be. Let it go. Just by pure chance, disorder.
There is some current, some kind of order in it, order of its own, which I do not really understand same as I never understood life around me.
The real life, as they say. Or the real people. I never understood them. I still do not understand them. And I do not really want to understand them."
Watch an excerpt from his 2000 film, "As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty." on YouTube here. It runs for only 2 min 29 sec.
"I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means. So when I began now to put all these rolls of film together, to string them together, the first idea was to keep them chronological. But then I gave up and I just began splicing them together by chance the way that I found them on the shelf.
Because I really don't know where any piece of my life really belongs, so let it be. Let it go. Just by pure chance, disorder.
There is some current, some kind of order in it, order of its own, which I do not really understand same as I never understood life around me.
The real life, as they say. Or the real people. I never understood them. I still do not understand them. And I do not really want to understand them."
