Thoughtful Preparations: Media Spin Blog

Here is a wonderful oppportunity to view the brief film snapshots of avante-garde filmmaker, Jonas Mekas. His web site project presented by the Maya Stendhal Gallery contains sample clips of portraits, happenings,performances, travel, filmmakers, cinema, and perhaps most notably, autobiographical themes. Many of these films consist of flashes of images of New York, Fluxus, Elvis Presley, Jackie Kennedy, Alan Ginsburg, as well as some of modern art’s most prestigious ground-breakers including Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, Hans Richter, Hollis Frampton, Harry Smith, Robert Frank, Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed, Robert Breer, Mary Menkin, Stan Brakhage John Lennon, Nam June Paik, Nico.