
Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory
The controversy over filmmaker Jonas Mekas’s memories of his WWII Lithuanian youth are delicately and humanely approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile.
Stemming from a New York Review of Books article by a Jewish historian condemning the widely-beloved Jonas Mekas, known as the ‘Godfather of American avant-garde cinema’, this essayistic, self-reflective, and analytic book flowers ...
The controversy over filmmaker Jonas Mekas’s memories of his WWII Lithuanian youth are delicately and humanely approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile.
Stemming from a New York Review of Books article by a Jewish historian condemning the widely-beloved Jonas Mekas, known as the ‘Godfather of American avant-garde cinema’, this essayistic, self-reflective, and analytic book flowers ...