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FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE

By Kd DAVISON

DOGWOOF - as SALES All rights / DISTR UNITED KINGDOM

Documentary - Completed 2022

FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE assembles thousands of hours of Jonas Mekas’ personal footage, films, video diaries and letters to paint an intimate portrait of the life and career of the pioneering filmmaker, poet and critic who was born in Lithuania and moved to New York in the wake of World War II.

The doc’s interviewees include Amy Taubin, Peter Bogdanovich, John Waters, Martin Scorsese, as well as Jonas’s children Sebastian and Oona Mekas.

Festivals
& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2022

Venice Classics Award for Best Documentary on Cinema

Telluride FF 2022

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary, Art - Culture
- Countries
- USA
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Kd DAVISON
- Synopsis
- For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the “godfather” of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he chronicled the trauma and loss of exile while pioneering institutons to support the growth of independent film in the United States. FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE is an intimate look at his life and work constructed from thousands of hours of his own video and film diaries—including never-before-seen tapes and unpublished audio recordings. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, and a man who tried to make sense of it all... with a camera.

FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE

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