Story
The wiry living legend of avant garde film, Jonas Mekas, is at 90 still very much alive and kicking – and dancing and singing. The film observes Jonas from many perspectives: his everyday life, at work, in his Brooklyn kitchen, right through to festivities at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. And accompanies him as he goes on the attack per website, Facebook, handycam and Occupy in connection with his past as a refugee from Lithuania, in the labour camp in Hamburg and a camp for Displaced Persons in Mainz. Mekas is proactive, lectures, presents, insists on freedom for film, art, literature, people and nations – and for their decentralisation. Screening on 03.10. in attendance of: Peter Sempel (Director)
Director
Since 1981, PETER SEMPEL (*1954) has been making films about artists, including Blixa Bargeld and Nick Cave (Dandy, 1988), Bazon Brock, Jonas Mekas, Kazuo Ohno, Ginsberg, Nina Hagen, Flamenco, Lemmy, Jonathan Meese, the art world and jazz musician Peter Brötzmann.Trailer
Info
Jonas in the Jungle
Documentary Feature
English, Italian, Lithuanian
Nordlichter | FF2013
Germany
2013
98 min
OV with German subtitles
Peter Sempel
Peter Sempel
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Peter Sempel
Peter Sempel
Peter Sempel