Excerpts from Meet the Artist: Jonas Mekas
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Fri, May 19 2006
Join us for an evening with filmmaker Jonas Mekas, a central figure in the avant-garde art and cinema community in New York that began in the 1960s. This marks Mekas’s return to the Hirshhorn-he was the first guest speaker at the film program in 1976.
Length: 34:24 | Download