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Friday July 31, 7:00pm<\/span>
\nJonas Mekas\u2028 365 <\/span><\/strong>
\nDay Project: Part Seven \u201cJuly\u201d<\/span><\/strong>
\nartist in person \u2013 pizza break at mid-point<\/span>
\nadmission $6 \u2013 free for Members<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/h1>\n

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\nStill from Day 185<\/em> (July 4th Fireworks), Jonas Mekas, 2007 – image courtesy of the artist
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\n An Art in America<\/strong><\/em> Weekly Pick<\/span><\/a>
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\nJonas Mekas returns to Microscope for the screening premiere of \u201cJuly\u201d from his \u201c365 Day Project\u201d. Mekas starts off the month with his thoughts on reaching the milestone half-way mark of his 2007 video diary, then allows us to accompany him on his daily journey\u2019s in New York \u2013 from Coney Island\u2019s Mermaid Parade to a Norah Jones concert in Bryant Park to G\u00fcnter Grass\u2019 book signing at the Lower East Side nightclub the Box, as well to flashbacks on summers past with backyard Karaoke in Cape Cod, a headstand contest in Montauk between Mekas and Peter Beard, and traveling Venice with Peter Kubelka. Betty Friedan, agnes b, Nam June Paik, Jeanne Liotta, Norman Mailer, the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Francaise and the New York City fireworks (as viewed from Brooklyn) also make appearances.<\/span>
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\nRunning time: approx. 3 hours\u2028\u2028<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Audience may enter and exit at any time.\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAbout 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>
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\nThe 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>
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\nSelections 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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Still from Day 204<\/em> (headstand contest between Mekas and Peter Beard), Jonas Mekas, 2007
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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.\u2028<\/span>
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Still from Day 208<\/em>(Nam June Paik), Jonas Mekas, 2007 – all images courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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