Marine Corps lockup is a modern Inferno. The men who enter it abandon all hope of mercy and act in a mad ritual of degradation. The polemic drama with shock-wave sound and nightmare air that suggests a shadow of Kafka with a Kodak seizes the audience and slams it around from wall to wall for one grueling day in a Marine Corps lockup. Jonas Mekas is no longer the gentle poet that we thought he was – he is a wild barbarous drying skin and scalps with a camera.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 8 min.
- Country, year
- United States, 1964
- Genre
- Drama, Documentary
- Language
- English, Abkhazian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian
- Age rating
- N-16
Credits
- Director
- Jonas Mekas
- Screenplay
- Kenneth H. Brown
- Producers
- David C. Stone
- Cinematography
- Jonas Mekas
- Cast
- Warren Finnerty, Jim Anderson, Henry Howard
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- Grand Prix for the Best Documentary
Director
Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas is one of the giants of the film world, a member of the cinematic vanguard that has charged headlong into the uncharted territories. He is regarded as "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema" and is one of the founding members of both The Film-Makers' Cooperative and Anthology Film Archives, as well as being a lauded film critic and a filmmaker.
