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Spector Books

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Hardcover, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 400 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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ISBN 9783959050807 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CDN $67.50

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Conversations with Filmmakers

By Jonas Mekas.

Conversations with Filmmakers

Interviews with avant-garde artists and filmmakers, from the "Movie Journal” Village Voice column

Pioneer avant-garde filmmaker, poet and artist Jonas Mekas (born 1922) was the barometer of the New York art scene in the 1960s and ‘70s. His interviews with Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Susan Sontag, John Cassavetes, Carolee Schneemann, Yvonne Rainer, Claes Oldenburg, Kenneth Anger and Michael Snow, among many other avant-garde artists and filmmakers for his weekly column in the Village Voice between 1958 and 1977, are gathered here for the first time in this substantial publication.

Originally recorded by Mekas using film cameras, still cameras and tape recordings, 60 conversations have been transcribed. Peppered with photos or stills from his films, each interview is a record of the artistic vision of the late 20th century and also a wonderful scrapbook and visual document of these noted artists. Letters and extracts from related scripts and an index supplement the texts.

This is Mekas’ third publication with Spector Books, following the acclaimed collection of his writings and reviews featured in Scrapbook of the Sixties. Mekas continues to produce interviews—over 70 years documenting and critiquing the reigning film and art scenes. Featured interviews include Jerome Hill, Vittorio De Seta, Gregory Markopoulos, Storm De Hirsch, George and Mike Kuchar, Mike Getz, Andy Warhol, Nico Papatakis, Taylor Mead, Claes Oldenburg, Shirley Clarke, Albert and David Maysles, Tony Conrad, Peter Kubelka, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ken Jacobs, Susan Sontag, John Cassavetes, Michael Snow, Kenneth Anger, Anna Karina, Hollis Frampton, Yvonne Rainer and Carolee Schneemann.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Conversations with Filmmakers.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

The Book Cover Review

Rick Poynor

This is one of those totally resolved designs that also feels substantial and satisfying to hold in your hands. The designers have taken full visual control of these vital documents from film history and projected them outwards to the reader through the cover.

Conversations with Filmmakers

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/20/2018

From Kenneth Anger to Agnès Varda: Jonas Mekas' 'Conversations with Film-makers'

From Kenneth Anger to Agnès Varda: Jonas Mekas' 'Conversations with Film-makers'

Every once in a while we get a book that stops us in our tracks and causes an office-wide slowdown as we pass the finished copy around the office. Spector Books' Conversations with Film-makers by Jonas Mekas is one such book. A collection of Mekas' legendary 60s and 70s "Movie Journal" columns for the Village Voice, this volume gets everything right. Printed on newsprint and glossy paper and designed to look like vintage Voice, the book contains interviews with everyone from Kenneth Anger to Stan Brakhage, John Cassavetes, Tony Conrad, Richard Foreman, the Maysles brothers, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Harry Smith, Jack Smith, Susan Sontag, Agnès Varda, Viva and Andy Warhol, to name but a few. continue to blog