Film Night @ The Platform, SW9 28 February 2019 A film by Jonas Mekas

Snacks and nibbles provided

BYOB

@ The Platform SW9, 2 Ridgeway Road SW9 7AH [Opposite Loughborough Farm]

The first film of the year in our The city is what we care for series will be by avant garde poet / filmer Jonas Mekas.

An autobiographical film

The everyday

Set in and around New York

Following the protaganist’s movement through time

Watching his life or maybe his memories

we reminisce together.

My dear viewers,

I guess you have come to another realisation by now,
and that is, that I am not really a filmmaker.

I do not make films…
I just film

I am obsessed with filming,
I am really a filmer
And it’s me and my Bolex

I go through this life with my Bolex
and I have to film what I see,
what is happening right there.

What an ecstasy just to film,
why do I have to make films when I can just film
When I can just film whatever is happening there,
in front of me,
and now,
my friends, whatever I see.

I may not be even filming the real life
I may be just filming my memories
I don’t care
I just have to film