Diaries, Notes & Sketches a.k.a. Walden

Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian filmmaker and poet who pioneered experimental cinema and the visual diary form in postwar America. Working primarily in 16mm film, he created lyrical, fragmented works that merged autobiography with formal innovation, refusing narrative convention in favor of accumulated moments and sensory immediacy. Co-founder of Fluxus and editor of Film Culture magazine, Mekas established a practice of filming daily life that became foundational to the artist's film movement. His work prioritized subjective experience and the materiality of celluloid itself as essential to meaning.

Lithuania