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Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it forms an epic, personal meditation on community, creativity, and the passage of time.
Keywords
diary film
Casts

Timothy Leary
Self

Ed Emshwiller
Self
Franz Fuenstler
Self

Jack Smith
Self

Mario Montez
Self

Nico
Self

Edie Sedgwick
Self

Andy Warhol
Self

Judith Malina
Self

Storm De Hirsch
Self

Norman Mailer
Self

Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)

John Lennon
Self

Yoko Ono
Self
Leo Adams
Self
Jane Wodening
Self
Neowyn Brakhage
Self

Stan Brakhage
Self
Louis Brigante
Self

John Brockman
Self

John Cale
Self
John Cavenaugh
Self

Shirley Clarke
Self

Tony Conrad
Self
Philip Corner
Self

Ram Dass
Self
Nick Dorsky
Self

Carl Theodor Dreyer
Self
Beverly Grant
Self
Martin Greenbaum
Self

Bibbe Hansen
Self

Jerome Hill
Self

Ken Jacobs
Self
Mike Jacobsen
Self

Peter Kubelka
Self
Algirdas Landsbergis
Self

Standish Lawder
Self

Naomi Levine
Self

Angus MacLise
Self

Gregory J. Markopoulos
Self

Adolfas Mekas
Self
David Mekas
Self
Elzbieta Mekas
Self

Jonas Mekas
Self
Polivas Mekas
Self

Marie Menken
Self

Sterling Morrison
Self

John Palmer
Self

Lou Reed
Self

Hans Richter
Self

Lionel Rogosin
Self

Barbet Schroeder
Self
Shep Sherbell
Self

P. Adams Sitney
Self

Harry Smith
Self

Michael Snow
Self

Amy Taubin
Self
Gretchen Weinberg
Self

Jud Yalkut
Self
Richard Foreman
Self

Jonas Mekas
self
Crews

Jonas Mekas
Director

Jonas Mekas
Cinematography

Jonas Mekas
Writer

Jonas Mekas
Editor
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