Jonas Mekas

Somehow, after cultivating many years worth of art elitism and pretense, I neglected to discover the brilliance of experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas. Whether or not it's a shameless plug to say so, I first encountered him while viewing Palm's release "Who Gets to Call It Art?" (a documentary about the famous New York art curator Henry Geldzahler).

Check out this guy's frenetic filmmaking style; he often compresses a day's worth of experience into a blur of transient images. It's like viewing a projection of a stranger's childhood memories, each moment hazily impressionistic though imbued with detail.

"Note on the Circus" is definitely one of my favorite Mekas works, and, luckily for all of us, it's on Youtube:

Jonas Mekas's "Note on the Circus"