Speaking distracts one. Speaking distracts one, while silence and work recollect and strengthen the spirit. While silence and work recollect and strengthen the spirit. Once a person knows what has been told to him for his benefit he no longer needs to hear or speak, but to put it into practice, silently and carefully and in humility. He must not then go in search of new things. He must not then go in search of new things that serve only to satisfy the appetite outwardly. He must not then go in search of new things that serve only to satisfy the appetite outwardly although they are not able to satisfy it, and leave the spirit weak and empty without interior virtue. Hence it follows that neither the former nor the later is of profit. We shall waken only to find our labor and work done in the wrong way, and thinking we were carrying an enlightened lamp we discover that it has gone out, because by blowing, in our opinion, to keep it lighted, we perhaps did more to extinguish it. I say, then, so that this might not happen, and that the spirit be preserved, there is no better remedy than to suffer, to do and to be silent, and to close the senses to the inclination toward, and practice of solitude, and the forgetfulness of all creature and happening even if the whole world crumbles. Never, whether in adversity or in prosperity, cease to quiet your heart with deep love, so as to suffer whatever comes along. For perfection is so singularly important, and the delight of the spirit is so high-priced, that all of this is hardly enough to obtain it. It is impossible to advance without doing in suffering virtuously all enveloped in silence. All enveloped in silence. Saint John of the Cross, Granada, 22nd November 1587
Hello Jonatan Steven, So great you appreciate Jonas' work. If you are interested in any of his work pertaining to his life in Lithuania, check out these titles : re-voir.com/shop/en/jonas-mekas-dvd/363-adolfas-mekas-idylls-of-semeniskiai-9780976396772.html re-voir.com/shop/en/jonas-mekas-dvd/151-reminiscences-from-a-journey-to-lithuania-3545020021903.html All the best, Jim RE:VOIR
Hello Ingmar Zamami, 'Walden' was filmed on a Bolex 16mm camera. Here's some notes from Jonas on shooting this film : "Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes diaries, it's a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you get it now, or you don't get it at all. To go back and shoot it later, it would mean restaging, be it events or feelings. To get it now, as it happens, demands the total mastery of one's tools (in this case, Bolex): it has to register the reality to which I react and also it has to register my state of feeling (and all the memories) as I react. Which also means, that I had to do all the structuring (editing) right there, during the shooting, in the camera. All footage that you'll see in the Diaries is exactly as it came out from the camera: there was no way of achieving it in the editing room without destroying its form and content." -Jonas Mekas Hope that answers your question.
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Speaking distracts one. Speaking distracts one, while silence and work recollect and strengthen the spirit. While silence and work recollect and strengthen the spirit. Once a person knows what has been told to him for his benefit he no longer needs to hear or speak, but to put it into practice, silently and carefully and in humility. He must not then go in search of new things. He must not then go in search of new things that serve only to satisfy the appetite outwardly. He must not then go in search of new things that serve only to satisfy the appetite outwardly although they are not able to satisfy it, and leave the spirit weak and empty without interior virtue. Hence it follows that neither the former nor the later is of profit. We shall waken only to find our labor and work done in the wrong way, and thinking we were carrying an enlightened lamp we discover that it has gone out, because by blowing, in our opinion, to keep it lighted, we perhaps did more to extinguish it. I say, then, so that this might not happen, and that the spirit be preserved, there is no better remedy than to suffer, to do and to be silent, and to close the senses to the inclination toward, and practice of solitude, and the forgetfulness of all creature and happening even if the whole world crumbles. Never, whether in adversity or in prosperity, cease to quiet your heart with deep love, so as to suffer whatever comes along. For perfection is so singularly important, and the delight of the spirit is so high-priced, that all of this is hardly enough to obtain it. It is impossible to advance without doing in suffering virtuously all enveloped in silence. All enveloped in silence.
Saint John of the Cross, Granada, 22nd November 1587
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Hello Jonatan Steven,
So great you appreciate Jonas' work. If you are interested in any of his work pertaining to his life in Lithuania, check out these titles :
re-voir.com/shop/en/jonas-mekas-dvd/363-adolfas-mekas-idylls-of-semeniskiai-9780976396772.html
re-voir.com/shop/en/jonas-mekas-dvd/151-reminiscences-from-a-journey-to-lithuania-3545020021903.html
All the best,
Jim
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no cut like this, it's so sad
Heifara Sandrina not really :)
i wanted to say there are a few filmmakers editing in this way.
that there are still filmmakers editing their footage primarily in camera
I spoke about the last cut...
malick did all the time not at this level but similar
Mi héroe, por el es que quiero convertirme en cineasta.
lo lograste???????
Amazing how much he can do with a camera
Going on the LSD comedown playlist🤯
quanto è bella questa parte
did he use super8mm camera???
Hello Ingmar Zamami,
'Walden' was filmed on a Bolex 16mm camera. Here's some notes from Jonas on shooting this film :
"Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes diaries, it's a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you get it now, or you don't get it at all. To go back and shoot it later, it would mean restaging, be it events or feelings. To get it now, as it happens, demands the total mastery of one's tools (in this case, Bolex): it has to register the reality to which I react and also it has to register my state of feeling (and all the memories) as I react. Which also means, that I had to do all the structuring (editing) right there, during the shooting, in the camera. All footage that you'll see in the Diaries is exactly as it came out from the camera: there was no way of achieving it in the
editing room without destroying its form and content." -Jonas Mekas
Hope that answers your question.
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