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

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

Jonas Mekas

2000

  • Documentary
7.8

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

Cast & crew

  • Jonas MekasDirector
  • Jonas MekasNarrator (voice)
  • Stan BrakhageSelf
  • Jane WodeningSelf
  • Robert BreerSelf
  • Hollis FramptonSelf (archive footage)
  • Allen GinsbergSelf (archive footage)
  • Ken JacobsSelf
  • Peter KubelkaSelf

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