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Author:	Jonas Mekas
Title:	Scrapbook Of The Sixties
Subtitle:	Writings 1954-2010
Publisher:	Spector
Country:	USA
Date:	1 Mar 2016
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Cinema, Music
Total Editions:	2
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Scrapbook of the Sixties is a collection of published and unpublished texts by Jonas Mekas, filmmaker, writer, poet, and co-founder of the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first experimental films there. Mekas developed a form of film diary in which he recorded moments of his daily life. He became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema.

Every week, starting in 1958, he published his legendary "Movie Journal" column in The Village Voice, writing on a range of subjects that were by no means restricted to the world of film. He conducted numerous interviews with artists like Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Erick Hawkins, and Nam June Paik. Some of these will now appear for the first time in his Scrapbook of the Sixties. Mekas's writings reveal him as a thoughtful diarist and an unparalleled chronicler of the times - a practice that he has continued now for over fifty years.

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