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

Home movies without the boredom. Mekas culls decades of personal film into a nearly five-hour diary. It's a downtown reverie of friends, light, and fleeting joys.

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Jonas Mekas directed As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty in 2000. See Jonas Mekas's full filmography, where to start with Jonas Mekas, or where to go after you've seen everything by Jonas Mekas.

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty was released in 2000 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 288 minutes.