{"id":34170,"date":"2018-03-21T14:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T14:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=34170"},"modified":"2018-03-21T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T14:11:25","slug":"the-old-guard-of-the-avant-garde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/03\/the-old-guard-of-the-avant-garde\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Guard of the Avant-Garde"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Andy Warhol to Susan Sontag, filmmaker Jonas Mekas is in conversation at the Peckham Plex on the 10th April 2018.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Avant-gard cinema has giants like all genres of creative arts but one name looms large-Jonas Mekas (born in Lithuania in 1922). This colossus of the New York Avant-gard art scene since the 60\u2019s, has recorded conversations and interviews with the likes of Andy Warhol and Susan Sontag, Yvonne Rainer and Kenneth Anger to name a few, for his weekly column in the Village Voice. Mekas has often been called the \u2018godfather of American avant-gard cinema\u2019 and his work has been shown and exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide to critical acclaim.<\/p>\n

Mekas is also credited with co-founding the Anthology Film Archive, one of the most important collections of avant-gard film in the world.<\/p>\n