#jonas mekas

[les-fleur]

Diaries, Notes and Sketches / Walden (1969, dir. Jonas Mekas)

[slayerbuffy]

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty — 2000, dir. Jonas Mekas

[zegalba]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) Dir. Jonas Mekas

[elizabethanism]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) - Jonas Mekas

[phantomladyoverparis]

Travel Songs (1981), dir. Jonas Mekas

[vintage-tigre]

Jonas Mekas

[somewordsarebiggerthanothers]

[holdoncallfailed]

the velvet underground + nico + warhol entourage (incl. edie sedgwick, gerard malanga, paul morrissey, billy name, paul morrissey, and jonas mekas) performing at the new york society for clinical psychiatry's annual gala in january 1966, shot by adam ritchie.

The act really came into its own about midway though the dinner (roast beef with string beans and small potatoes), when "The Velvet Underground" swung into action. The high-decibel sound, aptly described by Dr. Campbell as "a short-lived torture of cacophony," was a combination of rock 'n' roll and Egyptian belly-dance music. “It was ridiculous, outrageous, painful," said Dr. Harry Weinstock. “Everything that's new doesn't necessarily have meaning. It seemed like a whole prison ward had escaped."