He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Feb 22, 1986

2h 29m

★ 8.4

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

In 2022, when the economic crisis in her native country was at its peak, she decided to visit her family there. She turned her short trip into a collage-like diary in which she reflects on her relationship with her homeland, which is in a state of protracted decay. The film is composed of spontaneous snapshots capturing the author's stay, interspersed with inserted captions serving as personal, often poetically formulated comments and observations. As a result, the film does not hide its strongly subjective perspective, but at the same time builds on it to make an important statement that shows the transformation of Lebanese society in everyday details such as the appearance of the city itself or in the intimate sphere of the author's family life.

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