As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
288 min
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.
- Release date
- November 5, 2000
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Auguste Varkalis
Where to watch
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Cast
- Jonas Mekas as Self
- Stan Brakhage as Self
- Jane Wodening as Self
- Robert Breer as Self
- Hollis Frampton as Self (archive footage)
- Allen Ginsberg as Self (archive footage)
- Ken Jacobs as Self
- Peter Kubelka as Self
- Adolfas Mekas as Self
- Oona Mekas as Self
- Hermann Nitsch as Self
- Nam June Paik as Self
- Andy Warhol as Self (archive footage)
- Harry Smith as Self
- Richard Leacock as Self
- Paul Sharits as Self
- Jonas Mekas as Narrator
Crew
- Raimund Abraham · Archive footage
- Stan Brakhage · Archive footage
- Robert Breer · Archive footage
- William S. Burroughs · Archive footage
- Pola Chapelle · Archive footage
- Barbaralee Diamonstein · Archive footage
- Hollis Frampton · Archive footage
- Dizzy Gillespie · Archive footage
- Allen Ginsberg · Archive footage
- Jonas Mekas · Director
- Jonas Mekas · Writer
- Jonas Mekas · Producer
- Auguste Varkalis · Composer
- Jonas Mekas · Cinematographer
- Jonas Mekas · Editor