JONAS MEKAS' FAVOURITE FILMS

This list is dedicated to our very own Cat, Jonas’ champion, and so i discovered he’s been a fine poet.

His top 10 for the Sight & Sound poll, 1992

he picked the Lumiere brothers and Melies generally, i’ve just gone for one each to represent them.

From “THE TALK OF FLOWERS”

I do not know, whether the sun
accomplished it,
the rain or wind
but I was missing so
the whiteness and the snow.

I listened to the rustling
of spring rain,
washing the reddish buds
of chestnut-trees,
and a tiny spring ran down
into the...