As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) | Jonas Mekas

"This feeling of going nowhere of being stuck, as I afraid of next step, next stage. As long as I don't sum up myself, stay on the surface, I don't have to move forward, I don't have to make painful and terrible decisions, choices where I have to go." 

Kind of a film an aspiring Cineaste would desire to be a part of. Memories are consequential, we perpetually strive to create them, often happen to be a part of it. Some feelings remains in our subconscious, but we know for a fact that they could be erratic (which is masterfully illustrated in Anantharam) though our subconscious happen to store our beliefs, past experiences and whatnot. Pete Docter has vividly rectified the indispensable ability of every kind of memory in his masterpiece Inside Out. But Jonas Mekas has had achieved something inconceivable, profound, something which better shall be experienced and felt.

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty is an constitution of Jonas Mekas old home filmed footages arranged arbitrarily. The doc film is extremely gorgeous, every frame even though spontaneous is exquisite and immersive. Mekas has created an distinctive work of art, he blended all the personal home footages over the course of 30 years and has presented it over the course of almost 5 hours in the most affecting way possible.

The film remarkably emphasizes on on of the most important aspects of existence. The love! As Mekas narrates "It took me long to realise that distinguishes man from stone, trees, rain, and that we can lose our love and that love grows through loving."

Cherishing good memories, making them and Moving on regardless of circumstances would be some of my takeaways, since we know for a fact they would matter the most when everything we love, everything we ever cared for would perish just like that, coz the latter part is inexorably inevitable.

Years will go, I'll return to this for nth time and look at Jonas Mekas with reverence and utmost admiration for gifting this miraculous masterpiece