¿Qué resultaría si pudieras recopilar en una película las grabaciones en video de los últimos cincuenta años de tu vida? El director lituanoamericano, Jonas Mekas, obtuvo como resultado una película de cinco horas titulada As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (algo así como Conforme avanzaba, ocasionalmente veía breves vistazos de belleza).

Una amiga de Lituania me compartió lo siguiente sobre la película:

The whole film’s made of fragments of beauty. One life put into about five hours. Few seconds per moment. There is beauty in each frame of this film, so real and fragile. Some scenes almost made me cry. Is this something like what you’ll see before you die? I watched it in three days, I’d have watched the whole thing at once if i had time, because once you start you can’t stop! After this experience I feel..a different person. Weird, but if feels great. So many of us, often in our lives wished to have a camera or sound recorder at hand in many moments, right? And Jonas had it all

the time. It’s amazing and interesting that he keeps repeating the note throughout the film «nothing happens in this film» and «keep looking for things in places where there is nothing»… What is nothingness really? What nothing is it when you can see something in each «nothing»? Rating? How could I rate someone’s life? But it was sublime and inspiring, indeed.

Ojalá todos saquemos tiempo para ver esta película… Pero sobre todo, ojalá todos nos atrevamos a vivir la vida que, al final, nos permita reconocer esos pequeños destellos que nos han dado felicidad y sentido.

(aquí el link torrent para descargarla)