“The essence of film is time. As a photograph stills the breath of life, the cinema implies its inevitable exhalation. That which moves, moves inexorably toward its dissolution. These films reflect the intersection of that un-narrative, and the artifacts of its realization: the “surface’ of the image, or rather the pane of that looking glass we call the movies. The figures which inhabit them are the raw stuff of history, bit players and understudies who, in moments of crisis, are called upon to abandon the wings of this grandest stage and hesitantly deliver their lines.

Mekas spent time with Jackie Kennedy and her sister\'s family and children in the years following JFK\'s death. Jackie wanted to give her children something to do to ease the transition to life without a father. A movie camera was suggested and Mekas was

Images disintegrate and the gelatine layer - where the chemicals are embedded, dissolves. All that\'s left is the \'raging of the elements\' in a near-abstract, hypnotic landscape. \'The basic idea is that it is impossible to fix film\' - Reble.

\'Meshes of the Afternoon\' was a genuine landmark which launched the American post-war avant-garde movement and has continued to influence experimental film-makers. Through a variety of disorientating creative devices, everyday objects acquire strangely