SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES” FINISHES MEKAS FILM SERIES AT THE DOX
April 17, 6 p.m., DOX contemporary arts gallery (Poupětova 1, Praha 7) will host the last of the Jonas Mekas‘ film screenings in the retrospective film series accompanying the Mekas’ exhibition “…As I Am Moving Ahead… Glimpses of the Past Linger…”
The last screening will show the “Sleepless Nights Stories” (2011, video, 114 min. ENG). It is one of the latest films by the 90 years old living legend, contemporary Lithuanian artist, arts critic, poet and curator, Jonas Mekas, who has made over 90 films, videos and installations since his arrival in New York in 1949.
If you wish to be included in the DOX guest list, we invite you to register for the event at vaida.nemeckova@urm.lt . Registrations are accepted until April 17, 3 p.m.
“Sleepless Nights Stories,” as Mekas describes it, is a montage that evolved from the reading of “One Thousand and One Nights.” “But unlike the Arabian tales,” he says, “my stories are all from real life, though at times they too wander into somewhere else, beyond the everyday routine reality . . . the subject of the stories cover a wide range of emotions, geographies, personal anxieties, 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 . . . the very question “What is a story?” is a provocative question.”
The film will be introduced by a Czech avant-garde, experimental cinema theorist, and professor at FAMU, Martin Čihák. The presentation will take place in Czech language.
