Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it forms an epic, personal meditation on community, creativity, and the passage of time.

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	Timothy Leary	As: Self
	Ed Emshwiller	As: Self
	Franz Fuenstler	As: Self
	Jack Smith	As: Self
	Mario Montez	As: Self

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Genres: Documentary

Language: English

Release Date: 01 March 1968

Country: US

Runtime: 180m

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	Timothy Leary	Self
	Ed Emshwiller	Self
	Franz Fuenstler	Self
	Jack Smith	Self
	Mario Montez	Self
	Nico	Self
	Edie Sedgwick	Self
	Andy Warhol	Self
	Judith Malina	Self
	Storm De Hirsch	Self
	Norman Mailer	Self
	Allen Ginsberg	Self (archive footage)
	John Lennon	Self
	Yoko Ono	Self
	Leo Adams	Self
	Jane Wodening	Self
	Neowyn Brakhage	Self
	Stan Brakhage	Self
	Louis Brigante	Self
	John Brockman	Self
	John Cale	Self
	John Cavenaugh	Self
	Shirley Clarke	Self
	Tony Conrad	Self
	Philip Corner	Self
	Ram Dass	Self
	Nick Dorsky	Self
	Carl Theodor Dreyer	Self
	Beverly Grant	Self
	Martin Greenbaum	Self
	Bibbe Hansen	Self
	Jerome Hill	Self
	Ken Jacobs	Self
	Mike Jacobsen	Self
	Peter Kubelka	Self
	Algirdas Landsbergis	Self
	Standish Lawder	Self
	Naomi Levine	Self
	Angus MacLise	Self
	Gregory J. Markopoulos	Self
	Adolfas Mekas	Self
	David Mekas	Self
	Elzbieta Mekas	Self
	Jonas Mekas	Self
	Polivas Mekas	Self
	Marie Menken	Self
	Sterling Morrison	Self
	John Palmer	Self
	Lou Reed	Self
	Hans Richter	Self
	Lionel Rogosin	Self
	Barbet Schroeder	Self
	Shep Sherbell	Self
	P. Adams Sitney	Self
	Harry Smith	Self
	Michael Snow	Self
	Amy Taubin	Self
	Gretchen Weinberg	Self
	Jud Yalkut	Self
	Richard Foreman	Self
	Jonas Mekas	self