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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · 149 min
A drifting, intimate scrapbook of faces and moments that asks for patience and rewards it with quiet, accumulating tenderness.
- Directed by
- Jonas Mekas
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Kenneth Anger, Adolfo Arrieta, Donatas Banionis
- Overview
- A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, warm and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Memory, art, friendship, death
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Jonas Mekas
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Kenneth Anger, Adolfo Arrieta, Donatas Banionis












