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


Description: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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    An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tum

  • Maborosi

    Maborosi

    A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a

  • Four Nights of a Dreamer

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    Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued f

  • The Stranger

    The Stranger

    A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost

  • Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his bir

  • Wooden Crosses

    Wooden Crosses

    The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soo

  • Made in Hong Kong

    Made in Hong Kong

    Hong Kong 1997, where young people dream of love and death, suicide and murder. Moon is a cynical young debt collector,

  • To Sleep with Anger

    To Sleep with Anger

    An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.

  • Malice in Wonderland

    Malice in Wonderland

    A jet-propelled white rabbit flies through the vulva of a supine woman into a wonderland where people and objects turn i

  • The Reflecting Pool

    The Reflecting Pool

    Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass

  • Common Wealth

    Common Wealth

    Julia, a real estate agent, finds an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, a stroke of luck that wi

  • Werckmeister Harmonies

    Werckmeister Harmonies

    A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus

  • Au Hasard Balthazar

    Au Hasard Balthazar

    The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations b

  • Scenes from a Marriage

    Scenes from a Marriage

    Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationsh

  • Ugetsu

    Ugetsu

    In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village

  • The City of Lost Children

    The City of Lost Children

    A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

  • Am I OK?

    Am I OK?

    Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each

  • Mirror

    Mirror

    A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pi

  • The 400 Blows

    The 400 Blows

    For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults

  • Castle in the Sky

    Castle in the Sky

    A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary flo