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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: After seeing really 'The Treasure of Sierra Madre', I know exactly the moment when we saw the film and went, 'Ha! Maybe there is something in cinema'. And after that we saw some of the new German films, you know, with the visual sort of, post-war neo-realistic scenery... backgrounds. And already we wrote our first never-produced scripts already in the displaced persons camp; I still have them, very ambitious very... The other reason, the other film that was the other cause and maybe really even more important was Fred Zimmerman's film, 'The Search'. 'The Search' was about a family, post-war family... it's about war and post-war, family looking, searching for their child, and we thought everything, it was so naive we thought it was... so, the presentation all the research the... that we have to make a film and show how it really is. It made us so mad seeing that film, and that anger, that madness really, that's when we began to make notes for our own film, 'Lost Lost', not 'Lost Lost Lost', but 'Lost, Lost' it was only two... or maybe it was four, 'Lost, Lost Lost, Lost'.
