Details
208 × 300 mm, hardcover, 268 pages, language: Ukrainian, printing: Avanpost-Prym, Kyiv, print run: 1,000 copies, ISBN 978-617-7948-63-5
Jonas Mekas. Conversations with Filmmakers
Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania, came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first films there. Mekas developed a form of film diary in which he recorded his daily observations. He became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema. Every week, from 1958 until 1977, he published his "Movie Journal" column in the Village Voice, conducting numerous interviews with filmmakers from all over the world. Conversations is the first time that these interviews with his filmmaker friends and associates have been put together in a book. Mekas recorded the conversations with his camera. From the films he shot with his interlocutors, Mekas selected one photo or still to introduce each interview. The collection of texts is supplemented by letters and extracts from related scenarios /scripts and rounded out with an index of the people involved.
Jonas Mekas in conversation with Storm de Hirsch and Louis Brigante, Andy Warhol, Nico Papatakis, Albert and David Maysles, Peter Kubelka, Agnes Varda, Harry Smith, John Cassavetes, Stan Brakhage.
The project was supported by the Resilience Fund of the Goethe-Institut Ukraine. The programme has been supporting cultural and educational institutions, as well as civil society organisations, for four years, recognising their exceptional resilience under the conditions of Russia’s full-scale aggression.
The publication is co-financed by the Lithuanian Culture Institute within the Promoting Literary Translations program.
Team
Publisher: ist publishing
Author: Jonas Mekas
Translation from English: Iryna Kurhanska
Literary editing: Olha Petrenko-Tseunova
Translation advisor: Yulia Haleta
Proofreading: Oksana Rasulova
Project management: Anastasiia Leonova, Sofiia Holovko
Typesetting and layout: Ostap Yashchuk
Communications: Mariia Kharenko, Agency Ahentsiia
Copyright management: Mariia Sharova
Copyright lawyer: Mariia Farbota
The layout is based on the book design developed by Fabian Bremer and Pascal Storz.