Description:
Mekas, "raving maniac of the cinema", filmmaker, advocate, and founder of New York's Anthology Film Archive, creates his own history of cinema in this impressionistic encyclopaedia of 160 portraits of independent filmmakers and film activists shot between 1955 and 1996. This journey across the memory of film includes encounters with Henri Langlois, Roberto Rossellini, Robert Frank, Anna Karina, Andy Warhol, Hans Richter, Stan Brakhage, Chantal Akerman and others.