The place of memory in the cinema of Jonas Mekas

Authors

  • Javier Acevedo Nieto Universidad de Salamanca Spain
  • María Marcos Ramos Universidad de Salamanca Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.v0i20.7600

Keywords:

Mekas, Memory, No-place, Memories

Abstract

This article aims to provide an approach to the key works by Jonas Mekas (2000) As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, reflecting on the concept of memory and its visualitation on the selected film. Thus, starting with an earlier analysis of the film and taking the post-modernity´s discourse on memory and space as its reference, this essay attempts to relate the work and discourse on filmed memory of Mekas with the assumptions of Marc Augé or Pierre Nora, among other authors. Thereby, the object of the study of memory, as well as the concepts associated to the so-called new narrative will acquire a stronger conceptual dimension and will shed light on the key works of the Lithuanian filmmaker.

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Author Biographies

Javier Acevedo Nieto, Universidad de Salamanca

Javier Acevedo Nieto (Salamanca, 1994) is graduated in Media Studies at the University of Salamanca, took a master´s degree in Film Criticism (ECAM and Caimán Cuadernos de Cine) and received a master´s degree in Communication an Digital Journalism at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He has written for different film sites like Filmin and nowadays collaborates as film critic in Cine Divergente, focusing his research on avant-garde cinema. He has collaborated with the School of Slavonic & East European Studies at the University College of London, writing about Soviet cinema and the conflict of memory in the Polish New Wave.

María Marcos Ramos, Universidad de Salamanca

María Marcos Ramos (Valladolid, 1979) is graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country and holds a PhD in Audiovisual Salamanca from the University of Salamanca (PhD with distinction). She is affiliate professor at the University of Salamanca. Besides she is professor at the American institution IES Abroad Salamanca, where she teaches literature-related courses, film theory and film studies, which also are her main research line.

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2020-01-29

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Acevedo Nieto, J., & Marcos Ramos, M. (2020). The place of memory in the cinema of Jonas Mekas. Fotocinema. Revista científica De Cine Y fotografía, (20), 197–221. https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.v0i20.7600

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No. 20 (2020)

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Representaciones autobiográficas y construcción de memorias personales

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