Country: USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 114'
“Sleepless Nights Stories originated from my reading of the One Thousand and One Night. While my stories, unlike the Arabian tales, are all from the real life, they too, at some points wander into somewhere else, beyond the everyday routine reality. There are some twenty five different stories in my movie. Their protagonists are all my good friends and I myself am an inseparable part of the stories. The teller of the Arabian tales was also part of his, or her tales. Some of the people in the movie you’ll recognize, some not. The fact that some of them you’ll recognize has no bearing on the stories: after all, we all recognize John Wayne or Annette Bening, but in their stories they are no longer the people you know. The subjects of the stories cover a wide range of emotions, geographies, personal anguishes, anecdotes. These are not very big stories, not for the Big Screen: these are all personal big stories... And yes, you’ll also find some provocations... But that’s me, one ‘me’ of many. The very question what is a story, is a provocative question.”
Biography
film director
Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (Semeniskiai, USSR, 1922) graduated from the University of Tübingen. In 1950 he moved to New York and in 1955 he founded the magazine “Film Culture.” He directed his first experimental film, Guns of the Trees, in 1962, thus becoming one of the main exponents of the underground scene with movies such as The Brig, awarded at Venice, Walden, Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Lost Lost Lost, Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol, Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas, As I Was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty and 365 Day Project.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Guns of the Trees (1962), Film Magazine of the Arts (cm, 1963), The Brig (1964), Cassis (cm, 1966), The Italian Notebook (cm, 1967), Walden (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-1972), Lost Lost Lost (1976), Self-Portrait (cm, 1980), Street Songs (cm, 1966-1983), He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1969-1985), Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (mm, 1990), Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (mm, 1992), Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old (cm, 1996), Song of Avignon (cm, 1998), As I Was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), Notes on an American Film Director at Work: Martin Scorsese (2005), 365 Day Project (2007), Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR (2008), I Leave Chelsea Hotel (cm, 2009), Sleepless Nights Stories (2011), My Paris Movie (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, produttore/director, producer
Jonas Mekas
montaggio/film editing
Jonas Mekas, Elle Burchill
interpreti/cast
Benn Northover, Louis Garrel, Marina Abramovic, Harmony Korine, Sebastian Mekas, Dalius Naujo, Carolee Schneemann, Ken Jacobs, Florence Jacobs, Louise Bourgeois, Yoko Ono, Phong Bui, Raimund Abraham, Nathlie Provosty, Rachel Korine-Simon, Lefty Korine, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pip Chodorov, DoDo Jin Ming, Hopi Lebel, Kris Kucinskas, Thomas Boujut, Audrius Naujokaitis, Jonas Lozoraitis, Lee Stringer, Patti Smith, Diane Lewis, Simon Bryant, Adolfas Mekas, Oona Mekas, Bjork Gudmundsdottir
vendita all’estero/world sales
Re:Voir Video
