december 26, 1960

50 years ago today...

"we tried a new method of editing. we have cards for every shot. we layed them out on a huge reflector. we caught a roach and let it crawl through the cards. but somehow, the beast chose a very straight line, not interesting at all"

jonas mekas, december 26, 1960, from the diaries, in "the american new wave", walker art center, 1982, image circa 1964