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- Season: Jonas Mekas Retrospective
- Director: Jonas Mekas
- Country: USA
- Print source: Jonas Mekas/Light Cone
- Film website
The Brig
USA / 1964 / 68 minutes / Black & White / 16mm
The Brig, written by a veteran who survived
incarceration in a U.S. Marine Corps prison
during the 1950’s, is a chilling portrait of the
brutality of military prisons. Mekas shot the the
1964 Living Theater production of the play in one
night, with a hand-held camera; his film won the
Leone D’Oro for Best Documentary at the Venice
Film Festival the following year.
Notes on the Circus
USA / 1972 / 12 minutes / Colour / 16mm Monday
Ringling Bros., filmed in 1966, in three sessions
(three ringed circus), colours, motions and
memories of a circus. Edited in camera (an
exercise in instantaneous structuring). Dedicated
to Kenneth Anger who provided the Ektachrome
film stock, in one of my many dry periods
Jonas Mekas
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