A Letter from Greenpoint
In the winter of 2003, Legendary Filmmaker Jonas Mekas, moved out of his loft on Broadway, New York, where he had lived for the past 30 years. It was the place where he watched his children grow, and…
A Letter from Greenpoint
In the winter of 2003, Legendary Filmmaker Jonas Mekas, moved out of his loft on Broadway, New York, where he had lived for the past 30 years. It was the place where he watched his children grow, and the art scene of Soho become what it was today. It was where Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg used to come by for film events and dinner. This film shows Mekas' transition in to a new life living in Brooklyn, and the adventures this entails. Discovering new friends, singing and dancing with his good friend Benn, and their adventures together. Mekas also faces what it is to live along again in Brooklyn, the place where he first lived when he arrived in New York as a misplaced person in 1947 after ww2. A film of Joy, friendship, wine, and song! —Tim North After living in Manhatten for the past 3o years, at the center of the cultural revolution in New Yorks East Village. Mekas returns to Brooklyn where he first lived after arriving in America as a misplaced person after WW2. The film follows his adventures his new environment, and meets the the wild and wonderful characters along the way. —Tim Wilde The film follows Legendary Filmmaker Jonas Mekas, as he sets up a new life in Brooklyn, after living for the past 30 years in the center of Manhattens art scene. Mekas quit his overstuffed Broadway home for Greenpoint Brooklyn. The film tracks Mekas's steps into his new life: singing along to the radio - Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," - or killing off a bottle of wine in his new (and similarly cluttered) abode; teasing his young sidekick (the actor Benn Northover) who gushes obsessively over the singer Norah Jones; chatting up the hipsters and old-timers alike who flock to the local taverns; capturing street scenes at skewed angles that always catapult the viewer into the next episode. —Tim North
A Letter from Greenpoint
Biography,Documentary,Drama
Film Details
In the winter of 2003, Legendary Filmmaker Jonas Mekas, moved out of his loft on Broadway, New York, where he had lived for the past 30 years. It was the place where he watched his children grow, and the art scene of Soho become what it was today. It was where Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg used to come by for film events and dinner.
This film shows Mekas' transition in to a new life living in Brooklyn, and the adventures this entails. Discovering new friends, singing and dancing with his good friend Benn, and their adventures together. Mekas also faces what it is to live along again in Brooklyn, the place where he first lived when he arrived in New York as a misplaced person in 1947 after ww2.
A film of Joy, friendship, wine, and song! —Tim North After living in Manhatten for the past 3o years, at the center of the cultural revolution in New Yorks East Village. Mekas returns to Brooklyn where he first lived after arriving in America as a misplaced person after WW2. The film follows his adventures his new environment, and meets the the wild and wonderful characters along the way.
—Tim Wilde The film follows Legendary Filmmaker Jonas Mekas, as he sets up a new life in Brooklyn, after living for the past 30 years in the center of Manhattens art scene. Mekas quit his overstuffed Broadway home for Greenpoint Brooklyn. The film tracks Mekas's steps into his new life: singing along to the radio - Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," - or killing off a bottle of wine in his new (and similarly cluttered) abode; teasing his young sidekick (the actor Benn Northover) who gushes obsessively over the singer Norah Jones; chatting up the hipsters and old-timers alike who flock to the local taverns; capturing street scenes at skewed angles that always catapult the viewer into the next episode.
—Tim North.