[Frameworks] TONIGHT "Jonas Mekas: 365 Day Project" screening premiere launches w/ Part 1 "January" at Microscope in Brooklyn, 7pm

[LBurchill]

admission $6, Jonas Mekas in person

Microscope is extremely pleased to announce the screening premiere of the
complete “365 Day Project” by Jonas Mekas, a nearly 38-hour video project
composed of 365 individual videos posted daily on his website in 2007. The
work will be screened across twelve programs, one each month of 2015, with
part one “January” launching the series on Friday January 30th.

For “365″, as the project is more commonly known, Mekas challenged himself
to make and upload a video on his website every day for an entire year.
Despite the occasional technical or emotional close call, Mekas persevered
capturing snowstorms, friendly birds and squirrels, historical news
reports, gathering with friends and lots of music both at home in Brooklyn
and during his travels abroad, at times repurposing or incorporating
previously unseen footage from his earlier 16mm films or analog videos.

Originally each of the videos, ranging from under 30 seconds to 30 minutes,
were immediately made available for download and playable on smartphones at
a time which was well before watching content in this manner was ordinary –
Facebook had just been made publicly accessible and the first iPhone was
released that same year. Highlights from *Part One (Days 1 – 31)* include
original artworks and writings by Apollinaire, a visit to Louise Bourgeois
on her 95th birthday, a tour of the Castle of the Marquis de Sade with
Taylor Mead and Jerome Hill, a spontaneous music performance in the lobby
of Anthology Film Archives with the artist Douglas Gordon, a day of the
Epiphany parade in Brooklyn, a conversation with Susan Sontag and Bela
Tarr, and Mekas listening to his radio at home among others.

“Every day of the year 2007 I placed on my website one new video usually
about three to ten minutes in length. By the time the project ended, I had
made 38 hours of completed video works, the equivalent of twenty feature
films… It was the most challenging undertaking I had ever done. The videos
deal with my life in Brooklyn and my many travels of that year. It’s
personal and anthropological (impersonal) at the same time. During my
travels I relied a lot on technical and other help from The Gang  (Benn
Northover, Sebastian Mekas — I travel most of the time with the Gang) and
Elle Burchill was always ready at my Brooklyn station. You’ll see a lot of
me and my friends, various daily activities, gettings together, a lot of
music, and a lot of events around New York and Europe that year. The main
challenge was to record it and share it immediately with my many friends
all over the world. Today I still do the same, but not daily, with less
pressure, on my website www.jonasmekas.com <http://jonasmekas.com/>” -
Jonas Mekas

*Part One: “January” (Days 1-31)*
by Jonas Mekas, video, 2007, 2 hours 55 minutes

The “365 Day Project” has previously been presented in its complete form as
an installation (playing on 12 or 52 monitors) at ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany);
Hermitage, St. Petersburg (Russia); galerie du jour, Paris (France) and 2B
Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.


Microsope Gallery, 1329 Willoughby Ave, #2B, Brooklyn, NY 11237

tel: 347.925.1433, info at microscopegallery.com

at Jefferson L train (Starr Street exit)
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