Since the images don't unfold at 24 frames per second, what emerges can, in no way, be stated as a presentation of the real. This seems Mekas's precise point, suggesting all art resides within the apparatus and its focus on either an event or, as it were, a fraction of said event. These ideas accumulate to extraordinary ends in Lost Lost Lost, so that a brief segment entitled "Rabbit Shit Haikus" has Mekas repeating "the road the road the road" and "the childhood the childhood the childhood.
Clayton Dillard
noviembre 22, 2015