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Monday June 29, 7:00pm<\/span>
\nJonas Mekas<\/span><\/strong>
\n365 Day Project: Part Six “June”<\/span><\/strong>
\nof the 12 month screening premiere<\/span><\/p>\n

artist in person – pizza break at mid-point<\/span>
\nadmission $6 – free for Members <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/h1>\n

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All images courtesy of Jonas Mekas \u00a9 2007<\/span><\/p>\n

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The screening premiere of Jonas Mekas’ “365 Day Project” reaches its half-way mark with Part Six: “June”. As the days get longer, Mekas’ thoughts turn to summer travels with family in Cape Cod and with friends Peter Kubelka in Capri, Tony Guerrero in\u00a0Southern France, Philip Glass in Luxembourg, and Jackie Raynal in Paris. The artist also finds himself at the tomb of Juliet in Verona, in a garden dedicated to John Lennon in\u00a0Girona (Spain) , and at an Italian Museum for Stradivari violins. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mekas’ daily wanderings in New York City take him from Spoonbill in Williamsburg where Tosh Berman presents a book of his father’s photographs to the Upper East Side with Richard Serra at his MoMA opening, and a chance encounter with Taylor Mead in the East Village in between. The artist also pauses to offer advice on how to stop a headache and on the “beauty of changing one’s mind”, as inspired by Paris Hilton, and captures discussions on the mediums of film and video, including a proclamation by Kubelka about the future of his celluloid works. Other days are full of dance, drinks, music, and roses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also featured: Patti Smith, Raimund Abraham, Sarunas Bartas, Bradley Eros, and Andrew Lampert among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Running time: approx. 3 hours\u2028<\/span>
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Richard Serra –<\/span>image courtesy of Jonas Mekas<\/span><\/p>\n

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About 365 Day Project<\/span><\/strong><\/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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Taylor Mead –<\/span> image courtesy of Jonas Mekas<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nJonas 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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