Jonas Mekas – Barbara Rubin's influence (84/135)

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Jonas Mekas (1922-2019), Lithuanian-born poet, philosopher and film-maker, has made hundreds of films and set up the Anthology Film Archive. He emigrated to American in 1949 where he earned the title of 'the godfather of American avant-garde cinema'. [Listener: Amy Taubin; date recorded: 2003]

TRANSCRIPT: It comes out that she has read also a lot and she could quote 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' pages practically with that she had, you know, she said, 'I know the whole book in my head'. And she befriended everybody and she sort of became a... like the glue between different factions because she was very active, like somebody with a mission to keep everybody together and in peace and not to fight, you know, between different... There were different factions and some were, you know, like violently sort of attacking each other and very often she managed to make peace in that community. And, I mean, her contributions are so many and different that, let's say, her keeping together the Velvet Underground and bringing them first to me, then bringing them to Andy Warhol and then that's how Velvet Underground you know came into existence. How she met Bob Dylan I don't even know, I don't remember, but there she is and comes into Bob Dylan's life around the time when he had a motorcycle crash and she... everybody thought his career is finished and she thought so and there she is around keeping his spirits and saving him. And so... then she goes to London and meets supposedly in the street the Beatles, which one went out of... maybe John or...

[AT No, maybe George.

Maybe George and then supposedly that's how the legend goes, she gets them really on drugs. And she... So it goes, I mean it's her life story still has to be written because she was very, I think, important in that period and to keep us all together.

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