Lithuanian Cinema: An Open History

The Brig

1 hr. 8 min. | Drama, Documentary | N-16

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.

Jonas Mekas

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.
Languages
English, Abkhazian
Subtitles
Lithuanian
Original title
The Brig
Produced
1964: United States

Film information

Director
Jonas Mekas
Producers
David C. Stone
Screenplay
Kenneth H. Brown
Cinematography
Jonas Mekas
Cast
Warren Finnerty, Jim Anderson, Henry Howard
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