Country: Germany
Year: 2002
Duration: 94'
The second part of Jonas in the Desert, with less dialog and more music. The film is composed of sequences he shot before 1994 and not included in the first film, and of new material shot between 1994 and 2001. In the beginning, Jonas Mekas is at the seaside in Lithuania, and is filming some children with his Bolex. He later tells about his first trip to the United States with his brother Adolphas. Sempel follows Mekas in his voyages, to New York, Turin, Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, San Paolo, Washington, Montauk. On his way, he meets people like Robert Frank, La Monte Young, Nick Cave, Rudy Burkhardt, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, Harvey Keitel, Wim Wenders Blixa Bargeld and many others…
Biography
film director
Peter Sempel
Peter Sempel was born in Hamburg but he grew up in Australia. He returned to Germany in 1968 and enrolled at the University of Hamburg to study American literature. His moviemaking follows his passion for music, especially for the music of Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and Lou Reed. Sempel is one of the most original and "extreme" figures in contemporary independent cinema, accompanying his films around the world, and is always on the look-out for new experimentations. Jonas at the Ocean is the ideal continuation of Jonas in the Desert (1994). He recently finished Lemmy, a long documentary on the leader of the Motörhead.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Wild Raven (1984), Burning Raven (1985), Dandy (1988), Just Visiting This Planet (1991), Jonas in the Desert (1994), Hustler for Life (1997-8), Punk + Glory (1999), Jonas at the Ocean (2002), Lemmy (2002).
Cast
& Credits
Regia e sceneggiatura, fotografia e montaggio: Peter Sempel.
Cast: Jonas Mekas, Robert Frank, Nam June Paik, Philip Glass.
Producer: Peter Sempel.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Black Sun Flower, Ohlandorffstrasse 18, 20535 Hamburg, Germany, tel. +49-40-2500468, fax +49-40-3193197, e-mail sempel@t-online.de.
Cast: Jonas Mekas, Robert Frank, Nam June Paik, Philip Glass.
Producer: Peter Sempel.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Black Sun Flower, Ohlandorffstrasse 18, 20535 Hamburg, Germany, tel. +49-40-2500468, fax +49-40-3193197, e-mail sempel@t-online.de.