Letter from Greenpoint
Director Jonas Mekas
Countries United States
Duration 80 min
Synopsis
A film that follows filmmaker Jonas Mekas' move from the centre of Manhattan where he had lived for 30 years, to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York in the winter of 2003. He makes new friends and has further adventures. At the same time, it's a return to the place he lived during his early years in America and Mekas recalls raising his children there, the Soho art scene and the time he spent with old friends, Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg in the house he left.
A film that follows filmmaker Jonas Mekas' move from the centre of Manhattan where he had lived for 30 years, to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York in the winter of 2003. He makes new friends and has further adventures. At the same time, it's a return to the place he lived during his early years in America and Mekas recalls raising his children there, the Soho art scene and the time he spent with old friends, Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg in the house he left.