Oona Mekas

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Oona Mekas

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Barracuda
1h 40m
Movie 2017

Barracuda

Sinaloa hitchhikes into Texas to meet Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father. As the two get to know each other, Sinaloa's chaotic influence starts to unravel Merle's quiet, comfortable life. While the family music legacy brought Sinaloa to Austin, she won't leave without taking revenge against the people who stole her daddy away years ago.

The Future
1h 31m
Movie 2011

The Future

When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.

Kelp
0h 7m
Movie 2010

Kelp

An idealistic grade school teacher has a fear of speaking up in public (other than in front of her kids). But when she finds out that children in her school are going hungry- thanks to federal cutbacks in school lunch programs- it compels her to do things she wouldn't have thought she could do, including confronting a Congressman, in order to help the children.

365 Day Project
16h 39m
Movie 2007

365 Day Project

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.

Birth of a Nation
1h 25m
Movie 1997

Birth of a Nation

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Song of The Salamander
0h 10m
Movie 1996

Song of The Salamander

This film has to do with the early years of my daughter Oona, when she was three or four years old

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
2h 29m
Movie 1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

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