Shooting bits and pieces over the next two decades, Mekas explored the
immigrants' rebirth in their new land as a metaphor for his own discovery of
his filmmaking aesthetics and helped to create a new type of avant-garde
documentary -- the "diary film." Mekas, an avant-garde advocate as well as
filmmaker, is the co-founder of Anthology Film Archives, the first American
institution dedicated to preserving and presenting the avant-garde .

PRESS RELEASE Jonas Mekas: Fragments of Paradise March 3rd to April 30th at Maya Stendhal Gallery New York

Jonas Mekas was born in Semeniskiai, Lithuania, in 1922.

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Guests enjoyed
cocktails , hors d'oeuvres and music under the stars to show their support to
the preservation of films of the past on a weekend in which we gathered to
honor the best films of today."), Pat O'Brien, Penny Marshall , Rachel Hunter, Rick Yune ("Die
Another Day"), Sarah Carter ("Smallville") and Trent Ford ("Gosford Park"),
among others.

"Nostalgia" by photographer and filmmaker Hollis Frampton (1936 -1984)
probes the relationship of photography and memory through the destruction of a
series of Frampton's own photographs, each slowly burned as the narration
anticipates the next image. 1936 ), a leading exponent of landscape
filmmaking, celebrate nature and light.9353 ext.

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Mekas has also published twenty-four
volumes of poetry, essays, interviews, and diaries, and has been the
subject of twelve book-length studies.

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Hollywood Stars Step Out in Support of Film Preservation

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bsmith@laforce-stevens. Mekas's prolific film output includes
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McG and Stephanie Savage Host the 'Black + White Party ' a Pre-Oscar Event to Benefit Martin Scorsese 's Film Foundation Presented by Trident White(R)

Widely heralded as a landmark of structuralist
filmmaking, "Nostalgia" was named to the National Film Registry of the Library
of Congress last year.

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at the Mondrian Hotel's SKYBAR in West Hollywood, celebrities and VIPs from
the entertainment , fashion and music industries attended the Trident White(R)
"Black + White Party," an exclusive invitation -only event to benefit The Film
Foundation, a non profit organization led by Martin Scorsese.

ABOUT THE FILM FOUNDATION
The Film Foundation was established in 1990 by Martin Scorsese and an
esteemed group of filmmakers -- Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Francis Ford
Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Sydney Pollack, Robert
Redford, and Steven Spielberg -- to protect and preserve our cinematic
heritage. The cultural
institutions supported by the film foundation provide the U. The latter eventually grew into Anthology
Film Archives, one of the world 's largest repositories of avant-garde film,
which Mekas continues to direct.

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The Avant-Garde
Masters is the first grant aimed specifically at preserving America's
experimental film heritage. and
international communities with vital access to our collective film treasures. His diaristic method of filmmaking portrays
countless luminaries of the last fifty years, including John Lennon, Andy
Warhol, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elvis Presley, and many others, with
rare intimacy.

This exhibition uses LCD technology courtesy of Westinghouse.

For further information, please call the Gallery at 212-366-1549.

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In addition to his innovative work
in film, Jonas Mekas is a curator, writer, poet , and the founder and
artistic director of Anthology Film Archives. In 1954 he became Editor-in-Chief of Film Culture magazine, and in
1958 he began his groundbreaking "Movie Journal" column in The Village
Voice.

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Among his four films slated for
preservation is "Horizons," a feature-length study of seasonal change. Through substantial annual funding to the nation's leading
archives, the foundation works to preserve and restore a broad range of films
including classic Hollywood productions, avant -garde works, documentaries,
newsreels, and silent pictures from the earliest days of cinema.

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The visionary work of Jonas Mekas and The New American Cinema has emerged
as the guiding force for the arts in the new millennium, integrating
cinematic technologies with those of the older art forms to make something
radically new. His films have been exhibited in
museums and galleries around the world, including Le Jeu de Paume in Paris,
The Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, The Venice Biennale, and
many others.

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C. The prints produced through the preservation process
are available for archival viewing.

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After being imprisoned by the Nazis in a forced-labor camp and
a period in Belgian Displaced-Person camps, Mekas studied philosophy at the
University of Mainz from 1946-48.

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1922 ) began "Lost Lost Lost" as a documentary on the
Lithuanian community in Brooklyn shortly after he arrived in America in 1949. He then emigrated with his brother to the
United States, settling in Williamsburg.

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Trident White's $30,000 donation to The Film Foundation supports the
2005 Avant -Garde Masters Grants, funded by The Film Foundation and
administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation.asp?navtyp=gls====103568+nbc1=1

SPONSORS: Trident White(R) made a generous contribution to The Film
Foundation to support the 2005 Avant-Garde Masters Series, the
first grant aimed specifically at preserving America's
experimental film heritage.
Maya Stendhal Gallery proudly presents Jonas
Mekas: Fragments of Paradise, a landmark solo exhibition by the godfather
of The New American Cinema comprising nine films, two of which are world
premieres, as well as film stills, video installation, and rare objects
from the artist's personal collection. Maya Stendhal Gallery has pioneered the presentation of film
as art by reintegrating innovative contemporary filmmaking into the art
world with the groundbreaking work of Hans Richter, Ken Jacobs, Bill
Morrison, Martin Arnold, and the animators Robert Breer and Jeff Scher. He lives and works
in New York.

Institutions which house original films, scripts, production records, and other primary sources related to film-making, and make them available for research.

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Gottheim , founder of the Department of Cinema Studies at SUNY Binghampton,
will collaborate with the Donnell Media Center on the project.

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This year's awardees include:

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The Film Foundation, co-hosts McG and Stephanie Savage, DJ Tony O, and
celebrity guest attendees , included: Eddie Kay Thomas ("American Wedding"),
Emmanuelle Vaugier ("Smallville"), Erika Christensen ("Swimfan," "Traffic"),
Isaac Singleton ("Pirates of the Caribbean"), James Van Der Beek ("Dawson 's
Creek"), Jennifer Gimenez ("The Sweetest Thing"), Jesse Metcalfe ("Desperate
Housewives"), Kip Pardue ("Rules of Attraction," "Remember The Titans"), Lance
Bass (NSYNC), Mekhi Pfeiffer ("8 Mile ," "ER"), Melissa George ("Alias"),
Natassia Malthe ("Elektra"), Nikka Costa ("Singer"), Olivia Wilde
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http://www.242. In 1962, Mekas founded the Film -Makers' Cooperative (FMC) and the
Filmmakers' Cinematheque in 1964.

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These grants enable archives to work directly
with filmmakers to save works significant to the development of the
avant-garde in America.S.wireimage. Mekas discovered avant-garde film
at venues such as Amos Vogel's Cinema 16, and began to screen his own films
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