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JONAS MEKAS — GUNS OF THE TREES

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A meditation on love and death in a period of darkness. — Jonas Mekas

A restored 35mm print of GUNS OF THE TREES, Mekas’ debut feature, is screening daily at Anthology Film Archives.

This weekend the Archive also celebrates the publication of Mekas’ I SEEM TO LIVE—THE NEW YORK DIARIES, VOL 1, 1950–1969 with a launch party and reading. Participants include Mekas colleagues Ken Jacobs and Vyt Bakaitis, and actor Stella Schnabel.

GUNS OF THE TREES

Saturday and Sunday, January 25 and 26, at 5:15 pm and 7:30 pm.

Monday through Wednesday, January 27, 28, and 29, at 7:30 pm.

Anthology Film Archives

32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York City.

Jonas Mekas, Guns of the Trees (1962), from top: Ben Carruthers and Argus Spear Juillard; Adolfas Mekas (left); Frances Stillman and A. Mekas; Carruthers; Juillard and Carruthers. Images courtesy and © the Estate of Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives.

KEN JACOBS

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“[Ken Jacobs], cinema’s master inter- and reinventionist, [has] found yet another way to make the medium new, employing a logarithim to rework a thirty-second fragment of a 1897 Lumière actualité into a seventy-three minute 3D movie wherein space regularly inverts itself. Kinda has to be seen to be believed.” — J. Hoberman on THE GUESTS, Artforum

Experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs is out and about this week for public conversations, screenings, and Q & As.

In conjunction with the exhibition 3D—DOUBLE VISION:

KEN JACOBS IN CONVERSATION

A SWIM THROUGH OPEN SPACE

Sunday, October 7, at 1 pm.

Bing Theater, LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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Nervous Magic Lantern performance with live sound by Aki Onda:

Monday, October 8, at 8:30 pm.
Redcat, 631 West 2nd Street, downtown Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles premiere:
THE GUESTS , directed by Ken Jacobs
Tuesday, October 9, at 8 pm.
Downtown Independent, 251 South Main Street, downtown Los Angeles.

JACK SMITH AT METROGRAPH

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In conjunction with the exhibition Jack Smith—Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis, Artists Space and Metrograph present a retrospective of the visionary films of Jack Smith, along with rare and previously unseen documentation of Smith’’s live performances.

Smith’s work as an actor in the films of Ken Jacobs and Ron Rice will also be screened.

 

FLAMING CREATURES, SCOTCH TAPE, and OVERSTIMULATED

Saturday, September 8, at 7:30 pm.

I WAS A MALE YVONNE DE CARLO, NO PRESIDENT, SONG FOR RENT, and JUNGLE ISLAND

Saturday, September 8, at 9:15 pm.

BLONDE COBRA, THE WHIRLED, and CHUMLUM

Sunday, September 9, at 1:15 pm.

JACK SMITH IN COLOGNE (1974), THE SECRET OF RENTED ISLAND, and MIDNIGHT AT THE PLASTER FOUNDATION

Sunday, September 9, at 4:15 pm.

NORMAL LOVE and YELLOW SEQUENCE

Monday, September 10, at 6:30 pm.

JACK SMITH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO (1980)

Monday, September 10, at 9 pm.

METROGRAPH, 7 Ludlow Street, New York City.

Jack Smith at Metrograph

JACK SMITH—ART CRUST OF SPIRITUAL OASIS

Through September 16.

ARTISTS SPACE, 55 Walker Street, New York City.

Jack Smith at Artists Space

Top: Jack Smith, Flaming Creatures (1962–1963).

Below: Jack Smith, Normal Love (1963–1964).