He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Genres
Overview
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
149 min
Release Date
1986-02-22
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
9
Vote Average
8.2
Kenneth Anger
Self (archive footage)
Adolfo Arrieta
Self (archive footage)
Donatas Banionis
Self (archive footage)
Peter Beard
Self (archive footage)
Robert Breer
Self (archive footage)
Pola Chapelle
Self (archive footage)
Shirley Clarke
Self (archive footage)
Gregory Corso
Self (archive footage)
Miles Davis
Self (archive footage)
Willard Van Dyke
Self (archive footage)
Richard Foreman
Self (archive footage)
Hollis Frampton
Self (archive footage)
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Hanoun
Self (archive footage)
Ken Jacobs
Self (archive footage)
Jacqueline Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Peter Kubelka
Self (archive footage)
George Kuchar
Self (archive footage)
Mike Kuchar
Self (archive footage)
Henri Langlois
Self (archive footage)
John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
George Maciunas
Self (archive footage)
Jim McBride
Self (archive footage)
Adolfas Mekas
Self (archive footage)
Jonas Mekas
Self (archive footage)
Oona Mekas
Self (archive footage)
Hollis Melton
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Nitsch
Self (archive footage)
Yoko Ono
Self (archive footage)
Nam June Paik
Self (archive footage)
Anthony Stanislas Radziwill
Self (archive footage)
Lee Radziwill
Self (archive footage)
Hans Richter
Self (archive footage)
P. Adams Sitney
Self (archive footage)
Andy Warhol
Self (archive footage)
6.3
Birth of a Nation
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
1997-08-06 | en
0.0
Hotel Diaries
Made over six years in the hotels of six different countries, Hotel Diaries charts the 'War on Terror' era of Bush and Blair through a seven-part series of video recordings that relate personal experiences to the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel/Palestine. In these works, which play upon chance and coincidence, hotel rooms are employed as 'found' film sets, where architecture, furnishing and decoration become the means by which the filmmaker’s small adventures are linked to major world events.
2007-10-20 | en
0.0
Ventana en Carrer de Badajoz
Sara and Alberto spend their days at home. They look out the window and watch: spring is approaching and the sun is setting later and later. Alberto entertains himself by playing with the light, the shadows and the nooks and crannies they leave on the living room. Sara goes out on the balcony in the evenings and examines the neighborhood with her camera. When they are in bed, they talk about what worries them. About job expectations. About being creative and why keep trying, if someone else has done it before you. About living in confinement, but at the same time, realizing that things haven't changed as much as they seem.
2021-09-05 | es
7.5
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
2013-11-23 | en
5.5
In the Bathtub of the World
On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day. This is the result.
2001-04-29 | en
0.0
My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
A short documentary by Jim McBride.
2009-04-10 | en
7.6
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
2000-11-05 | en
7.0
Lost, Lost, Lost
Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.
1976-09-14 | en
0.0
Mathilde
An old man comes across a fascinating archive, then meets a woman who introduces him to the life of a banker, patron and philanthropist. A moving essay that is part documentary, part film diary.
1985-01-01 | fr
6.0
La deuxième femme
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith (not always recognisable)... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.
2008-11-30 | fr
0.0
Focus | Short Film
An average nobody explores the struggle of self-recognition through the lens of a photographer who has spent his life documenting everything.
2025-03-13 | en
0.0
beer cans under my bed
This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and into recovery.
2024-03-08 | en
5.2
Homeo
Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not something specific that I wanted to say: what the film depicts is above all reality, not fiction. Homeo is, for me, the search for an autonomous cinematographic language, which doesn't owe anything to traditional narrative, or maybe everything. Cinema is, above all, part of a way of life which will become more and more self-assured in the years and century to come. We are part of this change, and that’s why I tried in Homeo to establish a series of perpetual changes, in constant evolution or regress, which tries, above all, to focus on things.
1967-11-15 | en
0.0
Return to Khodorciur—Armenian Diary
Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for his son's camera and read an excerpt from his memoirs, translated from Armenian into Italian.
1986-01-01 | it
0.0
Always/Never (Together Forever)
An unhinged, diaristic examination of devastating friendship breakups.
| en
0.0
Clear years
I wasn’t told. I wasn’t told it would be so difficult to live together. To keep a family together. To maintain love and happiness. I wasn’t told, and if someone had told me I wouldn’t have listened. I chose to live with my camera in my hand, filming the trajectory of feelings, from the golden age to the lost paradise, from being born to being reborn.
2015-11-20 | pt
0.0
VEREDA
The day with the sky neither too blue nor too grey. With a hint of red. The train crowded and the backpacks between the feet. The loves on every corner, the ones we pretend not to see.
2025-01-22 | pt
0.0
Shotgun Baby
A personal documentary questioning the ways in which family imposed narratives force us into roles that we spend our lives either rebelling against or conforming to.
2025-03-01 | en
6.0
In the Land of Giants and Pygmies
IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, preserves a long-gone-Colonial-era wonder at natural resources, "primitive" tribes, customs and costumes in Europe's cast African possessions, and implies that the "dark continent" could benefit from the "civilizing" influences of home.
1925-01-01 | en
0.0
American Teenagers
A short documentary project that attempts to encapsulate what it looks and feels like to be an American Teenager in 2022.
2022-11-13 | en