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Sunday September, 7pm<\/span>
\nJonas Mekas<\/span><\/strong>
\n 365 Day Project: Part Nine “September”<\/span><\/strong>
\nartist in person – pizza break at mid-point!<\/span>
\nadmission $7 –\u00a0Free-for-Members<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n

Interview with Jonas Mekas about the project in Studio International<\/em> HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Still from “September 12th” (365 Day Project, Jonas Mekas, 2007) – image courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAs we enter our 2015-16 Season of our Event Series, we are pleased to continue the ongoing\u00a0monthly\u00a0screening premiere of Jonas Mekas’ “365 Day Project” (2007). “September” begins with Jonas at his make-shift animation table preparing the title dates for the month’s 30 videos to the music of Cyndi Lauper. Work, or rather work as life, a recurring theme in the artist’s work, is evident\u00a0throughout the month with Mekas not only as\u00a0filmmaker but also as musician – at a Swiss jazz festival – and as performer – on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Antonin Artaud at Anthology Film Archives. <\/span><\/p>\n

The institution\u00a0that\u00a0he founded is also the setting for many of the month’s videos including\u00a0conversations with Zoe Lund about her numerous pet rats, with Michel Auder and Jackie Raynal about Godard and Goethe, and with Maxi the cat, who is featured in four of the videos after falling seriously ill that month. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mekas’ reflections shift between present and past, Europe and the US, Manhattan and Brooklyn and feature rare footage of September 11, 2001 shot from the artist’s then SoHo roof, of\u00a0Peter Kubelka smoking a cigar in 1990s Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy, of the then current solo exhibition of Shigeko Kubuta in Chelsea, and a night at his Brooklyn loft where he tells the story of his visit to Fatima, Portugal over a burning candle he\u00a0brought\u00a0home from there decades earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mekas also enjoys the last day of summer along the Williamsburg riverfront (before the\u00a0high-rise condos) and the first day of autumn, walking through the already falling leaves in Greenpoint’s McGolrick Park.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nRunning time: approx. 3 hours<\/span><\/em>
\n Audience may enter and exit at any time.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Still from “September 5th” (Zoe Lund) (365 Day Project, Jonas Mekas, 2007) – image courtesy of the artist<\/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\u00a0www.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 “September 17th” (Martha Colburn) (365 Day Project, Jonas Mekas, 2007) – image courtesy of the artist<\/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. His\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. Mekas 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><\/p>\n

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Still from “September 13th” (Shigeko Kubota) (365 Day Project, Jonas Mekas, 2007) – image courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday September, 7pm Jonas Mekas 365 Day Project: Part Nine “September” artist in person – pizza break at mid-point! admission $7 –\u00a0Free-for-Members Interview with Jonas Mekas about the project in Studio International HERE \u00a0 Still from “September 12th” (365 Day Project, Jonas Mekas, 2007) – image courtesy of the artist As we enter our 2015-16 […]<\/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-16718","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16718","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=16718"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16738,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16718\/revisions\/16738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}