Synopsis
Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acquaintances like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Mr. Mekas begins the film with the words 'I can't sleep.' Who hasn't been in this situation? Sleepy and yet wide awake at the same time, you find yourself in the world of those exhausted from the day's exertions, the drunk, the relaxed, the dancing, the brooding, the mourning, and the pensive.
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Cast
- Raimund AbrahamSelf
- Marina AbramovićSelf
- BjörkSelf
- Thomas BoujutSelf
- Louise BourgeoisSelf
- Simon BryantSelf
- Pip ChodorovSelf
- Louis GarrelSelf
- Flo JacobsSelf
- Ken JacobsSelf
Recommendations
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Slant Magazine
A freeform, New York-based variation on the Arabian Nights tales by Jonas Mekas is both a pan-narrative and a disarming portrait of its sweetly curious maker. - 60
Time Out
The movie indulges a few too many whims, but it's never less than alive. - 60
The New York Times
Mr. Mekas makes little attempt to smooth out his transitions between takes or scenes, which only reinforces the intensely personal, even handmade nature of the work. - 50
Village Voice
More often, Mekas's focus on "names" comes off as a cloistered insensitivity to the wider world.