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Jonas Mekas (1922-2019), Lithuanian-born poet, philosopher and film-maker, has made hundreds of films and set up the Anthology Film Archive. He emigrated to American in 1949 where he earned the title of 'the godfather of American avant-garde cinema'. [Listener: Amy Taubin; date recorded: 2003]
TRANSCRIPT: 'Shadows' was completed in, though not released, completed and screened privately practically, in '58, 'Pull my Daisy' in '59 and then released only in '60, and, and 'Guns in...' began shooting in 1960 and finished in '61. So it's... and Shirley was same time, filming 'The Connection' when I was making 'Guns of the Trees'. And Robert was editing 'Pull my Daisy', and Gregory Markopoulos was editing 'Serenity' and they all used to come, you know, I lived on 515 East 13th Street, and they used to come for some leaders or some, and Gregory to chop pieces on our movieola and was chop from the 'Serenity', because he discovered he didn't like the leading star that he had, Dukakis, the daughter of Dukakis, and he kept chopping her from the leading actress, so she became the second actress. Unfortunately, that film cannot be seen. It disappeared in Greece, and it was beautiful, yeah.
