Monday April 22, 7pm
Presents for Jonas!
New presents for Jonas Mekas in film, video, sound, performance, poetry and more

Jonas Mekas with giant Oktoberfest beer, Brooklyn, NY, September 2017


Participants include, Lary 7, Peggy Ahwesh, John Akre, Gill Arno, Riley Bartolomeo, Blinn & Lambert, Camila Cañeque, Fanny Châlot, Charity Coleman, Catherine Corman, Peter Cramer & Jack Waters (NYOBS), Milton Cruz, Isabelle Dupuis, Amit Dutta, Alexander Dwinell, Bradley Eros, Judith Espinas, Hunter Finch, Jacqueline Heeley & Philippe Faujas, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Tim Geraghty, Christoph Gnaedig, Morrison Gong, Alice Guareschi, Chiriro Ito, Ken Jacobs, Marni Kotak, Joyce Lainé, Jeanne Liotta, Jonas Lozoraitis, Michael Lyons, LoVid with Nikima Jagudajev, Anuj Malhotra, Owen Plotkin, Joseph Pomp, Raha Raissnia w/ Panagiotis Mavridis & Dalius Naujo, Brian Ratigan, Rick Rodine, Jeremy Rossen, Rocking Russian, Lynne Sachs, Keith Sanborn, Wenhua Shi, Joel Schlemowitz, Ursula Sommer, Chuck Smith, St. Tula, Richard & Sønje Sylvarnes, Matt Town, .txt texto de cinema, Zak Vreeland, Sheri Wills, Lili White, +MLP+, and more!

Microscope is very pleased to present “Presents for Jonas”, a night of new film, videos, sound, performance, expanded cinema, poetry, and other presents made for the artist Jonas Mekas, who died on January 23 at the age of 96.

Jonas believed deeply in the importance of joining together to share work, conversation, dance, song, and drink. The night honors his spirit by gathering together more than 50 of his friends and others, from New York and around the world, inspired to share their new works made for him during the past 2 months of our “call for presents”.

The event is taking place on Earth Day, which we feel is especially appropriate for an artist who spent his life capturing moments of paradise on this planet.

The event begins promptly at 7pm and will continue until all contributions have been shown. A pizza break will take place at the mid-point!

Admission is free