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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000 · 288 min

A long, gentle drift through someone's home movies, warm and nostalgic, asking you to surrender to memory's loose flow.

Overview: A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
How it feels: Warm, melancholic, earnest and whimsical. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, family, aging, art
Content: No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
family
aging
art
love
Places: home
countryside
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none