{"product_id":"jonas-mekas-shiver-of-memory-9781954600034","title":"Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe texture of memory and the ability of art and film to bear witness to traumatic events are delicately approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor years, filmmaker Peter Delpeut has had Jonas Mekas's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMovie Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e within easy reach of his desk. Since his student days, he has been a great admirer of the Lithuanian-American ‘Godfather of avant-garde cinema’. Until he was startled in June 2018 by an article in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Historian Michael Casper claimed that Mekas had deliberately forgotten or misrepresented certain events during World War II. Seeded by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethis controversy over Mekas’s memories of his Lithuanian youth and Mekas’s pain over his subsequent exile, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDelpeut’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eessayistic and self-reflective book flowers into an inquiry about memory and forgetting; the moral compass of the future that cannot find its bearing in the past; the abilities of art to witness; and the roles we all must play in writing the adequate history of events too traumatic for a just accounting. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlthough there is little doubt that Mekas himself never participated in the horrors of the Holocaust in Lithuania, his silence about the fate of his Jewish countrymen and neighbors could be said to enable a rewriting of history, at the sacrifice of witness testimonies. As Delpeut follows Mekas through films, diaries, his public performances, his speeches, and finally his testimony given to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), he encounters an impasse for which he was not prepared. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Delpeut","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959899787382,"sku":"9781954600034","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_23caf535-aaa0-4b1b-97ba-87cbe14e0fac.jpg?v=1772918873","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/jonas-mekas-shiver-of-memory-9781954600034","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}