Jonas mekas 100! (U)

Jonas Mekas 100! features two landmark works by Mekas: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1976), which depicts Jonas and his brother Adolfas’s return journey to their homeland after several decades in the United States, and was inducted into the United States National Film Registry in 2006; and 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 at the 2000 London Film Festival and is currently the fourth highest-rated documentary film on Letterboxd. Alongside these titles, work with RE:VOIR and the Estate of Jonas Mekas resulted in the curation of a completely original series of Jonas Mekas’s lesser-known films to bring the joy, beauty and sense of wonder integral to his cinema to audiences in Edinburgh.