Instantaneous Structuring
Before there was The Blair Witch Project, jerky-camera TV sitcoms like The Office, and yes, video blogs, there were the improvisational in-camera edits and "single frame filming" diaries of Jonas Mekas:![](http://www.markamerika.com/blog/images/mekas.jpg)
And now, at age 83, there's this, Jonas' latest heralding of the new (tip of the hit to Cuechamp).
After viewing Jonas' frontline video blog entry, I think to myself: Moving visual art as an exercise in instantaneous structuring. That's my next project (2007-2008).
"I am sick and tired of the guardians of Cinema Art who accuse the new film-maker of shaky camera work and bad technique. In like manner, they accuse the modern composer, the modern sculptor, the modern painter of sloppiness and poor technique. They are hopeless. I would rather spend my time in heralding the new." (from his 1962 essay "Notes on the New American Cinema," in a section called "A Note on the 'Shaky Camera'")
![](http://www.markamerika.com/blog/images/mekas.jpg)
And now, at age 83, there's this, Jonas' latest heralding of the new (tip of the hit to Cuechamp).
After viewing Jonas' frontline video blog entry, I think to myself: Moving visual art as an exercise in instantaneous structuring. That's my next project (2007-2008).
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