Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
01/03/1968
3h
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.
Cast
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
Nathaniel Dorsky
Self
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