Where to watch · United States
Not on any service here yet.
A Letter from Greenpoint (2004)
Directed by Jonas Mekas
Documentary, Drama · 1h 20m
In February 2004, after 30 years of my life in SoHo, I made a decision to leave SoHo and move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This video is about what it feels like to leave a place in which one has spent more time than any other place, and which was also the place of my family life. I am somewhere else now. It’s about beginning of growing roots in a new place, new home, with new friends, new thoughts, experiences. This video is also about video. When in 1949 I began filming with my Bolex, it took me fifteen years to really master it so that my Bolex would do for me what I wanted. When in 1987 I got my first Sony camera I thought it would be different. But no. Only today, after working with the video camera for fifteen years, I feel like it had become an extension of my eye, my body, "A Letter from Greenpoint" being my first real video work.
Cast
Jonas Mekas
Crew
- Director
- Jonas Mekas
- Writer
- Jonas Mekas
Details
- Release date
- 2004-04-22
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Anthology Film Archives, Love Streams Productions