As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Nothing happens in this film.

An awkward family member turns up uninvited at your house on your first day off work in a while. They proceed to show you their home movies of stuff you really could not care less about, while you try to think of excuses to get them to leave. This lasts for five hours.

this film is life itself: in all its grandiosity and tininess

how dare you want more from film -_-

I watched 5 hours of Mekas home movies, and my biggest takeaway is that I should've spent those 5 hours watching my own home movies, or looking through old photos or making new ones. That's not as damning a sentence as it sounds, it delivers on the brief glimpses of beauty and the frenetic editing and occasional narration give the exercise a unique feel that makes for a very sweet, warm and uplifting meditation on life. But while 5 hours was necessary for Mekas, 1 would have been enough for me.

i love how almost all of the film is spent in the ny and near the end mekas goes to europe and is like "my most beautiful memories are from here"

I often revisit this, sometimes without sound.

This is a political film.

And beautiful those moments are

At 5 hours long, this is the magnum opus diary film of the original and possibly greatest diary filmmaker. Composed entirely of sped-up soundless images filmed in life moments that Mekas deemed beautiful, meaningful, or "ecstatic" (one of his favorite words), interspliced with text inserts, and set to instrumental music and the artist's voice-over thoughts, reflections, quotes and citations. Way too much to sum up, but certainly, a successful argument for the random joys of ordinary life.

Barış Manco Kultur Merkezi - Gölge Sinema

Watching this right after the Turin Horse is exactly how my life be

PSI of 100. This is the Seinfeld of documentaries - almost 5h about nothing. It is excellent at capturing a certain mood and nostalgia. Deeply personal but also universal. Amazingly it achieves both spectacularly well. The end is disappointing – the film is all about friends, family and NYC. But in the end we have all this stuff about Provence. A twist I wasn’t expecting and I felt Jonas just put it there just for effect.

confesso que só vi os três primeiros capítulos

A lot of people seem to really, really love this. I don't get it, personally. It's basically watching five hours of pretty average home movies (births, birthday parties, First Communions, vacations, meals, school plays, etc.) of strangers set to some music and occasional voiceover observations from Mekas. If that sounds like something you'd be into, by all means, but it was pretty tedious for me, especially at nearly 5 hours.

Made me feel like life is so significant and yet so insignificant simultaneously. I watch this when I'm not feeling well. I could watch it again and again. So there's no reason why I can't fall asleep while watching and continue to wake up to something beautiful.

Mahremiyetin yok oluşunu bu kadar iyi gösteren film bulmak zor. Adam evdeki her ama her halini videoya çekmiş, çektirmiş. Sonra da gidip tüm dünyaya sunmuş. Kendisinin de defaatle belirttiği gibi “filmde hiçbir şey olmuyor”. Evet insanlar hayatlarını yaşıyorlar, edit işini de abimiz iyi beceriyor, tamam da bana hiçbir şey ifade etmeyen Mekas’ın hatıraları yerine 5 saat kendi çektiğim videoları izlesem daha çok keyif alırım. Bu filmi sevdiğini iddia eden de şarlatandır.

1/2

Estreava há 20 anos no London Film Festival. É isso que eu chamaria de poema épico confessional. Plus: Gatos everywhere! DVDRip no MakingOff.