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Monday March 30, 7pm\u2028<\/span>
\nJonas Mekas<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u2028365 Day Project: Part Three \u201cMarch\u201d<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u2028screening in 12 parts January to December 2015<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u2028artist in person – pizza break at mid-point!\u2028<\/span>
\nadmission $6 – free for Members<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\"DAY60\"<\/p>\n

Day 60<\/em> (from 365 Day Project,<\/em> by Jonas Mekas, 2007) – image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

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Microscope is very pleased to announce the premiere of PART THREE<\/em> “March” from Jonas Mekas’ “365 Day Project” as the third of a 12-part program, screened at the end of each month, comprising the nearly 38-hour long video project. For the year of 2007, Mekas challenged himself to make and upload a video on his website each day, at times repurposing or incorporating previously unseen footage from his earlier 16mm films and analog videos. <\/span>
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\nOriginally each of the videos, ranging from 30 seconds to 30 minutes, were made available for download and playable on smartphones at a time when Facebook had just been made publicly accessible, Youtube had just been acquired by Google, and the first iPhone was about to be released later that year.<\/span>
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\nAmong the many highlights of Part Three (Days 60 – 90)<\/em> are Madonna concert at Madison Square Garden, Peter Kubelka playing a Tibetan gong, Jonas seeking \u00a0\u201csilence please\u201d, a drink with Zoe Lund at the Mars Bar, snowballs, saunas and a dip in a freezing lake in Tampere Finland, and a requiem for a broken tree in Brooklyn.<\/span>
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\n“Every day of the year 2007 I placed on my website one new video usually about three to ten minutes in length.\u00a0 By the time the project ended, I had made 38 hours of completed video works, the equivalent of twenty feature films… It was the most challenging undertaking I had ever done.\u00a0The videos deal with my life in Brooklyn and my many travels of that year.\u00a0It’s personal and anthropological (impersonal) at the same time.\u00a0 During my travels I relied a lot on technical and other help from The Gang (Benn Northover, Sebastian Mekas — I travel most of the time with The Gang) and Elle Burchill was always ready at my Brooklyn station. You’ll see a lot of me and my friends, various daily activities, gettings together, a lot of music, and a lot of events around New York and Europe that year.\u00a0The main challenge was to record it and share it immediately with many friends all over the world.\u00a0Today I still do the same, but not daily, with less pressure, on my website www.jonasmekas.com”<\/span>
\n– Jonas Mekas<\/span>
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\nThe “365 Day Project” has previously been presented in its complete form as an installation (playing on 12 or 52 monitors) at ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany); Hermitage, St. Petersburg (Russia); galerie du jour, Paris (France) and 2B Gallery, Budapest (Hungary).<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"DAY87\"
\nDay 87<\/em> (from 365 Day Project,<\/em> by Jonas Mekas, 2007) – image courtesy of the artist
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\nMicroscope gratefully acknowledges the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation as the Official Sponsor of the Event Series<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday March 30, 7pm\u2028 Jonas Mekas \u2028365 Day Project: Part Three \u201cMarch\u201d \u2028screening in 12 parts January to December 2015 \u2028artist in person – pizza break at mid-point!\u2028 admission $6 – free for Members Day 60 (from 365 Day Project, by Jonas Mekas, 2007) – image courtesy of the artist Microscope is very pleased to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15513","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15527,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15513\/revisions\/15527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}