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Guns of the Trees is a 1962 American film by Jonas Mekas, featuring Allen Ginsberg and other Beat poets. It depicts two young couples in New York and their struggles with love, war and art.
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guns of the trees (1962) 75 min jonas mekas guns of the trees 1961 movie “Guns of the Trees” records in earnestness and joy the feel of a particular moment in time, early 1960, and the concerns that seemed immediate then. Now they have a dreamlike, quality: Caryl Chessman, Strontium 90, Castro, Formosa, the beat generation.
Guns of the Trees: Directed by Jonas Mekas. With Adolfas Mekas, Frances Stillman, Ben Carruthers, Argus Spear Juillard. A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living.
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- Jonas Mekas
- 1961-02-28
Guns of the Trees. 1961 · 1 hr 27 min. TV-MA. Drama. A handful of young New Yorkers drift between hope and existential dread in the late-1960’s world of the A-bomb, mass consumerism and beatnik poetry. Audio Languages: English. Starring: Adolfas Mekas Frances Stillman Ben Carruthers Argus Spear Juillard Frank Kuenstler Allen Ginsberg.
Drama. 1h 25m. A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living. Guns of the Trees featuring Frances Stillman and Ben Carruthers is free on Tubi.
Featuring Ben Carruthers of Shadows and The Dirty Dozen, Frances Stillman, and the filmmaker’s brother/co-conspirator Adolfas Mekas, Guns of the Trees concerns generational malaise, activism, and suicide through the prism of a relationship in a free-form, symbolic, and romantically lyric register.
1h 15m. Synopsis. Crucial moments in the lives of five young people living in New York's Lower East Side are depicted in fragmented "stanzas," some 1 second in length, others up to 2 minutes, separated by intervals of white space. Frances is unhappy and desperate; friends are unable to help her, and she commits suicide.
