Jonas Mekas: the film-maker’s film-maker

In my life and work, I choose to celebrate the beautiful. Ive seen enough horror, so why put it in films or on paper? asks the nonagenarian artist Jonas Mekas, also known as the godfather of avant-garde cinema. Others concentrate on the dark, depressing aspects of humanityand theres a lot to document because humanity today is pretty horrible. But there are still fragments of paradise around us and we have to keep them alive. That is my responsibility. That is simply what I do.Born on Christmas