Letter from Greenpoint, A
- Synopsis
- Filmmaker Jonas Mekas says of this film: "In February 2004, after 30 years of my life in SoHo, I made a decision to leave SoHo and move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This video is about what it feels like to leave a place in which one has spent more time than any other place, and which was also the place of my family life. I am somewhere else now. It’s about beginning of growing roots in a new place, new home, with new friends, new thoughts, experiences. This video is also about video. When in 1949 I began filming with my Bolex, it took me fifteen years to really master it so that my Bolex would do for me what I wanted. When in 1987 I got my first Sony camera I thought it would be different.
But no. Only today, after working with the video camera for fifteen years, I feel like it had become an extension of my eye, my body, "A Letter from Greenpoint" being my first real video work." - Language
- English
- Country
- France
- Subjects
- Film studies
- Keywords
- cameras; experimental film & video; immigration; film essay
Credits
- Director
- Jonas Mekas
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 0 PAL
- Price
- 19.90
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 80 minutes
- Year
- 2019
Distributor
- Name
Re-voir Video
- info@re-voir.com
- Web
- http://www.re-voir.com External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +33 08 73 86 47 00
- Fax
- +33 01 42 77 93 15
- Address
- 41 faubourg Saint-Martin
75010 Paris
France - Notes
- Also known as Re:voir video. Formerly known as Light Cone Video
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