He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Feb 22, 1986

2h 29m

★ 8.2

Overview

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Self (archive footage)

Kenneth Anger

Self (archive footage)

Adolfo Arrieta

Self (archive footage)

Donatas Banionis

Self (archive footage)

Peter Beard

Self (archive footage)

Robert Breer

Self (archive footage)

Pola Chapelle

Self (archive footage)

Shirley Clarke

Self (archive footage)

Gregory Corso

Self (archive footage)

Miles Davis

Self (archive footage)

Willard Van Dyke

Self (archive footage)

Richard Foreman

Self (archive footage)

Hollis Frampton

I wasn’t told. I wasn’t told it would be so difficult to live together. To keep a family together. To maintain love and happiness. I wasn’t told, and if someone had told me I wouldn’t have listened. I chose to live with my camera in my hand, filming the trajectory of feelings, from the golden age to the lost paradise, from being born to being reborn.

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