GUNS OF THE TREES

by Jonas MEKAS
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« GUNS OF THE TREES deals with the thoughts, feelings, and anguished strivings of my generation, faced with the moral perplexity of our times. Conceived as an episodic, horizontal film, there is no apparent direct story connection between one scene and the next. The scenes act like pieces of a larger, timed, emotional mosaic. Where the direct word, or the direct image, fails – when we come to more essential things – the indirectness of the poet will seize the essence and the truth. »
– Jonas Mekas

« It is a bitter but lyric work. It is also revolutionary in form, being unlike, in its technique, anything you ever saw. It is a poster, a declaration, a manifesto. I regard GUNS OF THE TREES as the most important film by far of the American "New Wave". »
– Herman G. Weinberg, New York Film-Makers' Cooperative Catalogue n°6, 1975

Contains a 32-page booklet.


CONTENT


GUNS OF THE TREES
1962 / 35mm / n&b / sonore / 87' 00
by Jonas MEKAS

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release date 2012
publisher Re:Voir
format PAL
zone 0 (region free)
number of disks 1
running time 87 min.
subtitles French, German, Lithuanian