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Sunday May 31, 7pm POSPONED TO MONDAY JUNE 1, 7PM<\/strong><\/span>
\n Jonas Mekas<\/strong><\/span>
\n \u2028365 Day Project: Part Five \u201cMay\u201d<\/strong><\/span>
\n of the 12-month screening premiere<\/span>
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\n \u2028artist in person \u2013 pizza break at mid-point!<\/span><\/strong>
\n admission $6 \u2013 free for Members<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n

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\n\"May12_bennteachesjonastosmoke\"
\nStill from May 12 <\/em>(“365 Day Project”, Jonas Mekas, 2007)<\/span>
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Microscope continues the 12-part monthly screening premiere of Jonas Mekas\u2019s \u201c365 Day Project\u201d, with a Sunday evening screening of Part Five “MAY”. The diarist project finds Mekas returning throughout the month to thoughts of rebellion whether in the acts of others such as a reenactment of Paris May 1968 in the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, people surfing in a turbulent Munich river, or Jean-Jacques Lebel’s politically incorrect story about the poet Gregory Corso or through his own actions such as being evicted from a Nick Cave concert for illegally taping, reacting against a song that proclaims “Revolution is Over”, and in his 80s learning to smoke. <\/span><\/p>\n

MAY also features Maya Deren, Philip Glass, John Zorn, Raimund Abraham, Peter Kubelka, Viva, Michel Auder,\u00a0Tonino de\u00a0Bernardi,\u00a0Nico\u00a0Papatakis, among many others. But perhaps the most significant moment of the entire project happens at the Torino book fair when Mekas realizes why he began keeping a diary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Running time: approx. 3 hours<\/span>
\n\u2028Audience may enter and exit at any time.<\/span>
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\n\u2028About 365 Day Project<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day of the year 2007 I placed on my website one new video usually about three to ten minutes in length. \u00a0By the time the project ended, I had made 38 hours of completed video works, the equivalent of twenty feature films\u2026 It was the most challenging undertaking I had ever done. The videos deal with my life in Brooklyn and my many travels of that year. It\u2019s personal and anthropological (impersonal) at the same time. \u00a0During my travels I relied a lot on technical and other help from The Gang (Benn Northover, Sebastian Mekas \u2014 I travel most of the time with The Gang) and Elle Burchill was always ready at my Brooklyn station. You\u2019ll 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. The main challenge was to record it and share it immediately with many friends all over the world. Today I still do the same, but not daily, with less pressure, on my website www.jonasmekas.com\u201d \u2013 Jonas Mekas<\/span><\/p>\n

The videos in the \u201c365 Day Project\u201d 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. The videos range from 30 seconds to 30 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Selections from the \u201c365 Day Project\u201d is currently on view at the Internet Pavillion, Venice Italy through November 22. The work \u00a0has 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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\"May9_nickcave_stannes\"<\/p>\n

Still from May 9 <\/em>(“365 Day Project”, Jonas Mekas, 2007)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeni\u0161kiai, Lithuania and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Mekas was brought to the US\u00a0along with his brother Adolfas in\u00a01949 by\u00a0the UN Refugee Organization.\u00a0Within weeks, Mekas borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. Mekas is now among the most influential makers of avant-garde film and a master of the diaristic form.\u2028\u2028His\u00a0works are shown regularly in the US and internationally including recent solo exhibitions at KZM Karlsruhe, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Stadmuseum Weisbaden in Germany; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Centre Pompidou, Paris; James Fuentes Gallery, NY; DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague;\u00a0MUAC, Mexico City; Krinzinger Projekte Vienna; National Museum of Art, Washington, DC. Mekas\u2019 works have also previously exhibited at\u00a0Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MoMA PS1, Queens; Documenta, Kassel, Galerie Du Jour, Paris; Venice Biennale, Venice; among many others.\u2028\u2028Mekas has also published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, which have been translated into over 12 languages.\u00a0He was co-founder of the influential\u00a0Film Culture\u00a0magazine and wrote his\u00a0\u00a0\u201cMovie Journal\u201d column at the\u00a0Village Voice\u00a0for 20 years.\u00a0He also founded the Film-Makers\u2019 Cooperative in 1962, and in 1964 the Film-Makers\u2019 Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives. Both are still operating under the original mission\u00a0today.<\/span>
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\"May4_zorn_cobra_afa\"<\/p>\n

\"May21_bernardi_torino\"<\/p>\n

Stills from May 4 (John Zorn) <\/em>and May 21 (Tonino De Bernardi) <\/em>from “365 Day Project” (Jonas Mekas, 2007)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday May 31, 7pm POSPONED TO MONDAY JUNE 1, 7PM Jonas Mekas \u2028365 Day Project: Part Five \u201cMay\u201d of the 12-month screening premiere \u2028artist in person \u2013 pizza break at mid-point! admission $6 \u2013 free for Members Still from May 12 (“365 Day Project”, Jonas Mekas, 2007) Microscope continues the 12-part monthly screening premiere of […]<\/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-15891","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15891","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=15891"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15980,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15891\/revisions\/15980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}