A freeform, New York-based variation on the Arabian Nights tales by Jonas Mekas is both a pan-narrative and a disarming portrait of its sweetly curious maker.
Mr. Mekas makes little attempt to smooth out his transitions between takes or scenes, which only reinforces the intensely personal, even handmade nature of the work.
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Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
More often, Mekas's focus on "names" comes off as a cloistered insensitivity to the wider world.