O sobie i przez siebie
About and Through Oneself

Summary/Abstract: Andrzej Pitrus’s book Przebłyski piękna. Spotkania z Jo- nasem Mekasem [Glimpses of Beauty: Encounters with Jonas Mekas] (2022) is the first Polish monograph of the Lithua- nian filmmaker’s output. It is a guide to the artist’s work, intended to encourage the readers to ‘immerse’ themselves in his films and engage subjectively in searching for their meanings. Pitrus’s basic premise is to read Mekas’s cinema through himself. He seeks parallels between their experi- ences and refers to his own memories, which he uses to ‘get a feel’ for the filmmaker’s world. The form of the book is based on a dialogue with Mekas’s words. Its first part is Pitrus’s study of the artist’s film output, from his first and less-known films, through the most emblematic works, to late films created on video, art installations, and internet projects. The second part is a selection of the filmmaker’s writings – diaries, critical texts, interviews, and poems – that correspond to and extend Pitrus’s interpretations.

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