Postcard from America

After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could be a more remote country, and the inspiration is avowedly Japanese (Basho’s Narrow Road to the Deep North). Implicitly, the film-maker compares himself to an old peddler of drawings, Sam, hawking his wares at the entrance of Columbia’s Butler Library.

Cast

M

Marjorie David

L

Linda Dunn

D

Daniel Javitch

L

Leila Javitch

Jonas Mekas

P

Pia Rekola

S

Sam

D

Dieuwke Schreuder

K

Karel Vosskühler

V

Victoria Yablonsky