Jonas Mekas – cinema glimpses

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2015v20n2p55

This article reflects on the cinematic creation of Jonas Mekas, one of the filmmakers and thinkers of American avant-garde cinema, as such, brings in his films, trace of new propositions of language/composition, another comprehension of time and its passage, by the abandonment of any chronology and narrative linearity. From this argument, unfolds reading a cinema that is made in and by the displacement, transit through everyday, openness to chance, contingency; not part of a space-time unit but fragments - which fragment itself as ethical possibility in the face of otherness; passages, traces, traces of a gesture. Designing the intimate scenes in public in a kind of continuous and unpretentious celebration of everyday life, the family. Cinema in exile, cinema-asylum – at the same time, survival and suspension of memory, body and language shelter, place of the meeting, which always seems to draw the possibility, opening for the invention of a new space, inedited, space- life, space-art without borders.