WTC Haikus

WTC Haikus (2010, 14 min.)
Looking through my finished and unfinished films, I was surprised how many glimpses of the World Trade Center I caught during my life in SoHo. I had a feeling I was Hokusai glimpsing Mount Fuji. Only that it was the World Trade Center. The WTC was an inseparable part of my and my family's life during my SoHo period from 1975-1995. This installation is my love poem to it. My method in constructing this piece was simply to pull out images of the WTC from my original footage, while including some of the surrounding scenes. The result I felt came close, albeit indirectly, to what in poetry is known as the Haiku.
-- Jonas Mekas
(Music: Auguste Varkalis)

[@coleburns5497]

Feels like going through the past of a person who I never knew, yet familiar with.

[@nicktosti7487]

It's haunting how they appear at 8:57 in the background.

[@TarkovskyTarr]

Thank you Jonas for this magic piece of cinema.

[@shoowa7982]

I wish I could find the full movie of "As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty"

[@nestor9170]

I can send you by wetransfer

[@masonvaughan6443]

this is fantastic, great work. this deserves more recognition

[@yass5266]

Jonas mekas is a genius.

[@PabloWeston88]

Gracias, Maestro.

[@voidmoon.]

So beautiful.. Thank you..

[@zemmenn]

thanks for everything that u taught me , maestro.

[@DiegooMZ]

Thank you.

[@isaacstephanomunguiaii7188]

R.I.P

[@davidroad66]

Merci

[@stonewall1485]

Is this about a same location and people over the course of time?

[@Mavkor]

Can anyone suggest more film like this?

[@user-hc1vu3lr1m]

mavkor As I Was Moving Ahead (2000), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)

[@louis5017]

if you like 1 jonas mekas film you will probably like all jonas mekas films

[@theoangelopoulos.7657]

Im crying ):

[@theoangelopoulos.7657]

Nowww

[@mikejewels521]

[@neveragain1111]

:)

[@MartaMarras]

per lei una donna con personalità è una che si ritaglia una maglietta, per me è l'intimità