Movie

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000★ 7.7

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.

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Cast

Jonas MekasNarrator (voice)
Stan BrakhageSelf
Jane WodeningSelf
Robert BreerSelf
Hollis FramptonSelf (archive footage)
Allen GinsbergSelf (archive footage)
Ken JacobsSelf
Peter KubelkaSelf
Adolfas MekasSelf
Oona MekasSelf
Hollis MeltonSelf
Hermann NitschSelf

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