Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin English Subtitles

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LETTER To JONAS MEKAS
no. 1

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Paris, November 8th, 2009

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Dear Jonas,

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I'm musing over your letter
in a railway station bar

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The restaurant-bar
at the Gare de Lyon.

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I've ordered a glass of wine,

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and I drink it to your health.

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Now I will attempt to capture
some interesting reflections

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in the revolving door before me.

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LETTER To JONAS MEKAS
no. Z

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Friday, February 8th
day off (excursion to Walden Pond)

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Along with Nanook,

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in this forest I am haunted
by images of Thoreau,

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of his philosophy of living
a simple life in nature,

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living in a house
built with his own hands.

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And also images
of Francesco Giullare di D10.

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And Franciscan images

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Dear Jonas Mekas,

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in this latest instalment

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I want to return to the ideas
outlined in your last letter

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Namely, a contrast
between two windows.

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One looking out
onto an exterior in springtime,

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and another, inside,
looking over images of winter

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This is the first one.

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Early April leaves,

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just starting to sprout because
they have been delayed this year

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LETTER To JONAS MEKAS
no. 4

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Dear Jonas,

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Your words from Poland have
led me to go back and reconsider

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an image I filmed there
a couple of years ago.

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I filmed this image
during the Brveclav Film Festival.

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I wanted to see the city
moving in front of a screen.

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And I harboured
hopes for this frame.

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I had the slightly crazy hope that,
at some point during filming,

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Dear Jonas,

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It is impossible to predict
when a letter might be the last,

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because all it would take
is for one of us

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to respond with another
at some point,

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for it to no longer be so.

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But given that it
was planned this way,

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I thought that
it might be appropriate

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to approach this letter
as a kind of summing up...

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