Człowiek, który nosi wspomnienia w swoich oczach. Kino Jonasa Mekasa
The Man with Memories in His Eyes. Jonas Mekas’ Cinema

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of the first three film essays by Jonas Mekas in the context of the autobiographical theory in film. The biographical experience of displacement and the search for rooting in the new reality became the background of the interpretation and analysis. The early work of the Lithuanian director was analyzed in relation to the concept of film diary and diary film, using the close reading method. The article is particularly concerned with the issue of shaping of the original style of Jonas Mekas, based on editing made at the time of filming, which was combined with the mnemonic processes proper to the phenomenon of reminiscence and the poetics of the American avant-garde film of the 1960s.

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