movie
2000 · United States
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 288 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
- biography
- diary film
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Hollis Frampton — Self (archive footage)
- Allen Ginsberg — Self (archive footage)
- Ken Jacobs — Self
- Peter Kubelka — Self
- Adolfas Mekas — Self
- Oona Mekas — Self
- Hollis Melton — Self
- Hermann Nitsch — Self
- Nam June Paik — Self
- P. Adams Sitney — Self
- Andy Warhol — Self (archive footage)
- Directed
- Jonas Mekas
- Written
- Jonas Mekas
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 86 ratings
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
