If you loved Diaries, Notes, and Sketches, try As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Jonas Mekas, and they both carry the slow burn mood tag, and they sit in Documentary territory. If that's the register that drew you to Diaries, Notes, and Sketches, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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

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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