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KD Davison is an award-winning director. Her third documentary feature, Fragments of Paradise, won a Lion for Best Documentary on Cinema at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival and a Grand Jury Prize at Doc NYC.
Oct 26, 2023 · Fragments of Paradise: Directed by K.D. Davison. With Peter Bogdanovich, Jim Jarmusch, Benn Northover, Martin Scorsese. For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films.
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K.D. Davison’s Fragments of Paradise. With the task of organizing Mekas’s disparate shards of ecstatic life, Davison does what Mekas refused to do. By Jasmine Liu. Jonas Mekas with his first Sony video camera in 1987, as seen in Fragments of Paradise, directed by KD Davison. Courtesy the Jonas Mekas estate. Jonas Mekas never properly grew old.
Aug 25, 2022 · Merkas’ extraordinary story is told in KD Davison’s new documentary Fragments Of Paradise, world premiering in Venice Classics. The documentary includes both excerpts from Mekas’ film diaries and interviews with some of the other directors and artists he inspired.
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KD Davison is an award-winning director. Her third documentary feature, FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE, won a Lion for Best Documentary on Cinema at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival and a Grand Jury Prize at Doc NYC.
Fragments of Paradise is an intimate look at his life and work constructed from thousands of hours of his own video and film diaries—including never-before- seen tapes and unpublished audio recordings. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, and a man who tried to make sense of it all... with a camera. Director’s Statement.
