Synopse
DOCUMENTARY In his fourth film about Jonas Mekas, Peter Sempel accompanies the indie icon over his final years. An associative road movie with well-known guests – and happy birds. Jonas Mekas died in 2019 aged 96. Since the end of the 1980s, Peter Sempel has met the film poet regularly all over the world. Now it’s time to film the final encounters: chez Mekas in Brooklyn, in the fields of Lithuania where he grew up, on a reading tour in Hamburg. On the way, he meets artists for whom Mekas was an inspiration: Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Julian Schnabel. In one of the last scenes, Mekas looks up at the sky and says: »Look, the birds are happy«.
Regie
PETER SEMPEL (*1954) dreht seit 1981 Filme u.a. über Blixa Bargeld und Nick Cave (Dandy, 1988), Bazon Brock, Jonas Mekas, Kazuo Ohno, Ginsberg, Nina Hagen, Flamenco, Lemmy, Jonathan Meese und die Kunstwelt und den Jazzer Peter Brötzmann.
Info
Original Title: Jonas in the Fields
Category: Documentary feature
Section: Hamburger Filmschau
Version & Subtitles: English, German, Lithuanian OV with German subtitles
Director: Peter Sempel
Cast/Protagonists: Jonas Mekas, Sebastian Mekas, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Julian Schnabel, Steve Buscemi, Heike Geißler, Lillian Isabella, Phong Bui, Indra Drevinskaitè, Simon de Pury, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Stipe, Holger Steen, John Leland, Andy Lampert, Peter Brötzmann, Vyt Bakaitis and friends…, …horses, cows and happy birds…
Production country: Germany
Year of Production: 2021
Length: 107 min
Producer: Peter Sempel
Production company: Peter Sempel Film&Foto
Editor: Peter Sempel, Robert Strauß
Music: Matthias Schuster, Das Institut, Saal 2, Bürgermeister Der Nacht, Peter Brötzmann, Auguste Varkalis, Now We Are Here Band, Ziz ...
