The Movie - As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)

Not bad - As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty movie (As I Moved Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty).

Movie Premier in 2000.

"The ultimate Dogma movie before the birth of Dogma," is how its maker, 'Jonas Mekas' (qv) described it.
Color Info: Color
Countries: USA
Genres: Documentary, Biography
Languages: English
Runtimes: Germany:288, UK:320
Sound Mix: Mono
Tech Info: PFM:16 mm
Release Dates: UK:4 November 2000, Germany:10 February 2001, Canada:29 September 2001, Norway:22 October 2001, USA:12 December 2001, Netherlands:24 January 2002

In movie have been taken:

Hollis Frampton (actor)
Death Notes:New York, USA
Birth Notes:Ohio, USA
Death Date:30 March 1984
Birth Date:11 March 1936

Jonas Mekas (actor)
Quotes:In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
Birth Notes:Semeniskiai, Lithuania
Books:David E. James, ed.. _To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground._ Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Other Works:Established the Anthology Film Archives in New York City where he still works. The Anthology is regarded to be the centre of avant-film in New York, and possibly the world.
Brother of 'Adolfas Mekas' (qv)., Father of 'Sebastian Mekas' (qv)., Used to film with an old Bolex camera., Was in German labor camps during WWII. After the war he spent time in Germany as a displaced person, settling in New York City in 1949., In 1958, he became the first movie critic for The Village Voice., Left Lithuania at the age of 22.
Birth Date:24 December 1922

P. Adams Sitney (actor)
Professor of Visual Arts at Princeton University., Film historian.
Other Works:(1975) (book) "The Essential Cinema" (editor), published by New York University Press, (1978) (book) "Visionary Film, the American Avant-Garde 1943-1978", published by Oxford University Press, (1990) (book) "Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms)", published by Columbia University Press, (1995) (book) "Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics", published by University of Texas Press, (2000) (book) "Film Culture Reader", published by Cooper Square Press

Jonas Mekas (producer)
Quotes:In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
Birth Notes:Semeniskiai, Lithuania
Books:David E. James, ed.. _To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground._ Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Other Works:Established the Anthology Film Archives in New York City where he still works. The Anthology is regarded to be the centre of avant-film in New York, and possibly the world.
Brother of 'Adolfas Mekas' (qv)., Father of 'Sebastian Mekas' (qv)., Used to film with an old Bolex camera., Was in German labor camps during WWII. After the war he spent time in Germany as a displaced person, settling in New York City in 1949., In 1958, he became the first movie critic for The Village Voice., Left Lithuania at the age of 22.
Birth Date:24 December 1922
Quotes:In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
Birth Notes:Semeniskiai, Lithuania
Books:David E. James, ed.. _To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground._ Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Other Works:Established the Anthology Film Archives in New York City where he still works. The Anthology is regarded to be the centre of avant-film in New York, and possibly the world.
Brother of 'Adolfas Mekas' (qv)., Father of 'Sebastian Mekas' (qv)., Used to film with an old Bolex camera., Was in German labor camps during WWII. After the war he spent time in Germany as a displaced person, settling in New York City in 1949., In 1958, he became the first movie critic for The Village Voice., Left Lithuania at the age of 22.
Birth Date:24 December 1922
Quotes:In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
Birth Notes:Semeniskiai, Lithuania
Books:David E. James, ed.. _To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground._ Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Other Works:Established the Anthology Film Archives in New York City where he still works. The Anthology is regarded to be the centre of avant-film in New York, and possibly the world.
Brother of 'Adolfas Mekas' (qv)., Father of 'Sebastian Mekas' (qv)., Used to film with an old Bolex camera., Was in German labor camps during WWII. After the war he spent time in Germany as a displaced person, settling in New York City in 1949., In 1958, he became the first movie critic for The Village Voice., Left Lithuania at the age of 22.
Birth Date:24 December 1922

Auguste Varkalis (composer)

Jonas Mekas (director)
Quotes:In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
Birth Notes:Semeniskiai, Lithuania
Books:David E. James, ed.. _To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground._ Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Other Works:Established the Anthology Film Archives in New York City where he still works. The Anthology is regarded to be the centre of avant-film in New York, and possibly the world.
Brother of 'Adolfas Mekas' (qv)., Father of 'Sebastian Mekas' (qv)., Used to film with an old Bolex camera., Was in German labor camps during WWII. After the war he spent time in Germany as a displaced person, settling in New York City in 1949., In 1958, he became the first movie critic for The Village Voice., Left Lithuania at the age of 22.
Birth Date:24 December 1922
Quotes:In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
Birth Notes:Semeniskiai, Lithuania
Books:David E. James, ed.. _To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground._ Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Other Works:Established the Anthology Film Archives in New York City where he still works. The Anthology is regarded to be the centre of avant-film in New York, and possibly the world.
Brother of 'Adolfas Mekas' (qv)., Father of 'Sebastian Mekas' (qv)., Used to film with an old Bolex camera., Was in German labor camps during WWII. After the war he spent time in Germany as a displaced person, settling in New York City in 1949., In 1958, he became the first movie critic for The Village Voice., Left Lithuania at the age of 22.
Birth Date:24 December 1922

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