As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)Director:Jonas MekasWriter:Jonas Mekas |
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Title: As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
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Stan Brakhage | ... |
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Robert Breer | ... |
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Ken Jacobs | ... |
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Peter Kubelka | ... |
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Adolfas Mekas | ... |
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Sebastian Mekas | ... |
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
12 December 2001 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Krećući se napred pokadkad bih viđao odsjaje lepote See more »Company Credits
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Much like Prousts "A la recherche du temps predue" Mekas's, "brief glimpses of beauty" is a refleciton on the years of his life past as seen through the eyes of a man who is percieving his own death. Mekas beautifully edits together the scraps of film that fell to his cutting room floor while he was working on projects he "percieved" as important, not realizing that what was truly important were the deatils that he missed, that he left out in favor of the shot in focus, the shot in composition. He strings together these family films of his children, his wife, his friends, New York during a lightning storm, all while narrating the film from what seems to be "His Death Bed." This film is by far one of the more touching, more emotional films I have ever seen. It is an homage to life as much as it is a recognition that beauty lies in the places we least expect it and as we walk we may occasionally catch brief glimpses of it, if we are lucky enough to have our eyes that wide open.