Directed by:
Jonas MekasCast:
Björk, Louis Garrel, Harmony Korine, Rachel Korine, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, Flo Jacobs, Adolfas Mekas, Benn Northover, Sebastian Mekas, Oona Mekas (more)Plots(1)
For two hours (or more) we stroll with Jonas Mekas through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars and clubs. We meet old acquaintances like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Carolee Schneemann, Marina Abramovic, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pip Chodorov, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and we also make many new acquaintances. The father of the diary film begins a film with the words "I can't sleep". Who hasn't been in this situation: you lie awake in bed until you finally give up, get up, get dressed and go out. Sleepy and yet wide awake at the same time, you find yourself in the world of those exhausted from the day's exertions, the drunk, the relaxed, the dancing, the brooding, the mourning, the pensive, the partiers. In Sleepless Nights Stories Jonas Mekas dives into a time vacuum. We witness (approximately) 25 stories from a thousand and one nights, and it becomes increasingly unclear whether we really did get up and go out – or whether what we're seeing are remnants of the day that we're remembering, or remnants of films by one of the greatest avant-garde filmmakers whose life wrote film history. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Björk
Iceland
Best movies:
The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (2003) (video compilation)
Björk: Volumen (1999) (video compilation)
Live 8 (2005) (concert)
Louis Garrel
France
Best movies:
Little Women (2019)
An Officer and a Spy (2019)
Funan (2018)
Harmony Korine
USA
Best movies:
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Mid90s (2018)
Waves (2019)
Rachel Korine
USA
Best movies:
Septien (2011)
The Fourth Dimension (2012)
Mister Lonely (2007)
Patti Smith
USA
Best movies:
The Best of R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (2003) (video compilation)
The Rugrats Movie (1998)
The Big Empty (2003)
Yoko Ono
Japan
Best movies:
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (2003) (music video)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration (2001) (concert)
Benn Northover
UK
Best movies:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
House of Boys (2009)
Venus (2006)
Oona Mekas
USA
Best movies:
The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
The Future (2011)
The Gambler (2013)
Louise Bourgeois
France