Acknowledgments
1 Introduction 3
2 Routines of Emancipation: Alternative Cinema in the Ideology and Politics of the Sixties 17
3 The Old Days 49
4 Jonas Mekas: A European Critic in America 51
5 "Loved Him, Hated It": An Interview with Andrew Sarris 62
6 The Apron Strings of Jonas Mekas 83
7 How I Think I Made Some of My Films 97
8 The Forest and The Trees 100
9 Notes on Displacement: The Poems and Diary Films of Jonas Mekas 121
10 During the Second Half of the Sixties 138
11 Film Diary/Diary Film: Practice and Product in Walden 145
12 A Portfolio of Photographs 180
13 Reminiscences, Subjectivities, and Truths 193
14 My Contacts with Jonas Mekas 213
15 Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist 215
16 Dear Friends 240
17 Film Writing and the Figure of Death: He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 241
18 A Tale of Two Co-ops 255
19 Jonas Mekas 266
20 Wearing the Critic''s Hat: History, Critical Discourses, and the American Avant-Garde Cinema 268
21 Who Is Afraid of Jonas Mekas? 284
22 Video at Anthology 286
23 I Feel Passionate about the Film Journals of Jonas Mekas 293
24 Home Movies of the Avant-Garde: Jonas Mekas and the New York Art World 294
Appendices 313
A Autobiographical Notes 315
B Filmography 321
C Showcases I Ran in the Sixties 323
B Books Published 325
Index 327
