![]() ![]() I had already gotten my fair share of adult life by It was already the 14th of December, and soon, it was going to be Him, I was filled with joy, but I was filled with sadness the next But one night, two daysīefore Victory Day, I saw a flag-seller carrying a poll of flags with Upon hours getting lost in its gorgeous world. Into computer games, and Skyrim had just come out. I had justįinished my JSCs and was enjoying a well-deserved vacation. The next December I vividly remember takes place in 2011. When I grew up, I came to know that this feeling had a Of the last remaining echoes of the previous decade. But by then, most had moved away, and we were one The roof used to be a sanctuary, a safe haven forīoth kids and adults. With the cold kiss from the northern winds, I looked around to find School by then, it really didn't kick in how different things would Even though I had already entered primary That evening was the transience of it all, a feeling of impermanence ![]() Really believed that it was going to snow. The significance, or insignificance, of our place on the Earth, and I The sky was white as ash, and standing there, below the canvas ofĪngels, I thought it was going to snow. Would have come to wrestle with 15 years later. Would have a chance encounter which would become a key to a puzzle I The skylines of Dhaka were still open to the masses, and I But of course, due to the nature of memory, I do not remember The first December I encountered took place half a year after myīirth. Throughout my time on Earth, I have encountered many Decembers. Something is leaving the plane, never to come back With December comes a feeling of impermanence, a feeling that APA style: OP-ED: As I was moving ahead, occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty.OP-ED: As I was moving ahead, occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty." Retrieved from MLA style: "OP-ED: As I was moving ahead, occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty." The Free Library.Until the end of his life he wrote poetry and published books on cinema, made diaristic cinema with film but also with the new digital media. He was the first director of the famous organization for experimental cinema Anthology Film Archives. There he became an emblematic figure of the American experimental cinema and the avant-garde scene, making mainly diary films but also founding magazines, collectives and experimental film archives. He immigrated to New York in the late 1940s. Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) was born in Lithuania and, with his brother Adolfas, was held captive in a forced labor camp during World War II. It’s the ultimate Dogma '95 movie, before the birth of Dogma." (Jonas Mekas) The film is also my love poem to New York, its summers, its winters, streets, parks. Sometimes I talk into my tape recorder, as I edit these images, now, from a distance of time. ![]() The piano improvisations are by Auguste Varkalis. The soundtrack consists of music and sounds recorded mostly during the same period from which the images came. There are many inter-titles that reflect my thoughts of the period. Nothing extraordinary, nothing special, things that we all experience as we go through our lives. ![]() Seasons of the year as they pass through New York. Footage of daily life, fragments of happiness and beauty, trips to France, Italy, Spain, Austria. It covers my marriage, children are born, you see them growing up. ![]()
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