• Notes for Jerome (1978) Jonas Mekas

It's about water and repetition of daily routines. The sound tranqulizies you. Mekas is pushing information to see how much a human eye can take through single frames. The Frenetic and Kinetic motion is demanding of the viewer. Everyone's experience in watching this film is his/her own therefore it cannot be re-created. Whatever image is posed it is accepted in a collage/montage way. The craft of a controlled chaos reflects back onto the maker. It is only a trip like someone writing in a diary. Viewers are challenged by the task of nostalgia asking the viewer to look back in. That way it feels like it is someone else's life, but it's idealogically humanistic in a generalized way. This piece playa at a level of subject and craft, and reality and opposition simultaneously.