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

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  • @imcyborgbutthatsok
    @imcyborgbutthatsok  6 років тому +666

    RIPJonas Mekas
    I love you forever

  • @SerinaChilli
    @SerinaChilli 6 років тому +653

    This is what I imagine dying to be like. All your life's memories playing before you until the film runs out and you breathe your last breath. This is one of the most beautiful things I've seen and I am truly touched

    • @isaacerickson2383
      @isaacerickson2383 4 роки тому +7

      this touched me today, thanks for sharing it

    • @burntric3-s1l
      @burntric3-s1l 4 роки тому +2

      exactly what i felt

    • @lyn3792
      @lyn3792 4 роки тому +2

      Is that the full movie?

    • @xazimir4266
      @xazimir4266 3 роки тому +1

      I was touched to the point of crying today. This brought every emotion out of me -

    • @Football101s
      @Football101s Рік тому

      @@lyn3792 No, the full movie is nearly 5 hours long

  • @komiago2149
    @komiago2149 6 років тому +453

    every human being deserves to carry this kind of memories inside of them. i wish i had had a camera

    • @uknownothing5128
      @uknownothing5128 5 років тому +15

      it's in your phone

    • @everythingintheuniverse8962
      @everythingintheuniverse8962 5 років тому +11

      Why do you want a camera. Just live

    • @komiago2149
      @komiago2149 5 років тому +33

      i said i wish i Had had it with me in the past to record moments now precious to me, which i'm scared of forgetting

    • @Airborne_Art
      @Airborne_Art 4 роки тому +1

      r.s. gobi just be happy it happened 🙂😕bless you

    • @pragatisingh2884
      @pragatisingh2884 4 роки тому +1

      @@komiago2149 if they're precious. You won't forget

  • @Katsuhi50
    @Katsuhi50 7 років тому +66

    there is so much nostalgia in the way this song is played.

  • @Vmvmvmvmvn
    @Vmvmvmvmvn 6 років тому +65

    My favorite documentary of all time. Its impossible to not fall in love with it.

    • @shivani2080
      @shivani2080 4 роки тому +1

      Hey, can you help me with where did you watch it? Please

    • @bryceherman9231
      @bryceherman9231 3 роки тому +1

      @@shivani2080 hope its not too late! its available to rent on mubi for a few dollars

    • @lamontkhoza2856
      @lamontkhoza2856 3 роки тому +1

      @@shivani2080Mubi and The Criterion Channel

    • @hdhf991
      @hdhf991 2 роки тому

      @@bryceherman9231 i downloaded the app. I can't watch the movie, only the trailer

  • @plotoyadnaya_rossiyanka
    @plotoyadnaya_rossiyanka 2 роки тому +74

    This film was in my history of experimental cinema university course, so I had to watch it to pass my exams. I didn’t like it much back then and thought it was another boring ass piece of modern art, but now, when I became an involuntary immigrant myself (just like Mekas was), it hits absolutely different. The feeling of nostalgia and sorrow in this film is so strong and genuine that it almost makes me want to cry. RIP Jonas Mekas, he was the true genius.

    • @xylan9543
      @xylan9543 2 роки тому +3

      your university and lecturer is dope asf for recommending this movie lol

  • @kinoochoaedeel
    @kinoochoaedeel 7 років тому +123

    I love everything you upload, I hope your channel will last for many years

  • @AntiAuthority55
    @AntiAuthority55 7 років тому +111

    This song is so depressing and moving. It made me think of the last woman I dated that ended badly. The lost memories. The hope that things would blossom into something beautiful, but instead slowly faded away and died. Now nothing but an empty space of lost time and pain remains.

  • @1ofmonster
    @1ofmonster 7 років тому +160

    very beautiful, my eyes are filled with tears !!

  • @laurencronenberg1427
    @laurencronenberg1427 7 років тому +72

    This video is so beautiful... there is something melancholic about it...

  • @MayaMars
    @MayaMars 7 років тому +61

    Wow. this is truly beautiful, it made me so nostalgic and reminds me of my old loved ones back at home in Serbia. Oh I have tears in my eyes :'))

  • @sntjana9348
    @sntjana9348 7 років тому +255

    it was close to dying- a life you've never lived, coming and going in flashes of brilliant light. Places I've never been to, but oddly familiar and leaving me aching.
    i hope when i die i'd have left behind a life as beautiful as this

    • @harsangeetsidhu9190
      @harsangeetsidhu9190 6 років тому +1

      You Put my feeling in words ❤️

    • @AngMarco
      @AngMarco 4 роки тому +1

      Every life is this beautiful. It’s the personal marvel that you experience and then leave behind in the soil, to grow for others. ❤️

  • @karinspisakova6553
    @karinspisakova6553 4 роки тому +14

    The amount of inner peace this video brings me is indescribable

  • @clarcc
    @clarcc 6 років тому +22

    I'm crying. This is art.

  • @luvabean
    @luvabean 6 років тому +10

    stoic and resolute in my simple computer chair....
    i hang my heart and head sobbing,
    at the beauty
    ...of timeless simplicity.
    my sweet friend i can't call a name to...
    thank you,
    precious.
    you are adored for the dance you spurn my soul to

  • @KugelKami
    @KugelKami 7 років тому +30

    Best editing I've seen from you. A good mix with the movie and music.

  • @netske
    @netske 7 років тому +326

    Those Eastern European vibes 🖤

    • @carlos-mk2tn
      @carlos-mk2tn 7 років тому +9

      rawdeliver *Northern

    • @carlos-mk2tn
      @carlos-mk2tn 7 років тому +5

      mercury just because it was considered Eastern at the time, doesn't mean that we should still refer to it as such. I respect that it was once considered to be Eastern however from a UN classification point of view it is Northern - which is a derived from a logical point of view, if the continent includes Russia - the countries Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus are much closer to being geographically to the North of Europe's centre than to the East... because if Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus are considered to be Eastern... then Russia must be Western Asia.

    • @styljac
      @styljac 7 років тому +31

      Oh please, it's Eastern Europe. Belarus isn't even remotely close to being Northern Europe either.

    • @tomasgaud8871
      @tomasgaud8871 6 років тому +4

      Lithuania is locating at the geographical centre of Europe. There is also a central European theme park near capital Vilnius.

    • @kel1573
      @kel1573 6 років тому +1

      carlos eastern * it will always be eastern to both me and my grandparents, great grandparents.

  • @popculturereporter8179
    @popculturereporter8179 7 років тому +15

    Only UA-cam channel I watch right away when I get a notification. Thanks, keep doing what you do.

  • @sbduman
    @sbduman 6 років тому +38

    I missed my grandmother after watching this, think I'm gonna visit her this weekend...

    • @ZZ-ue8ic
      @ZZ-ue8ic 4 роки тому +8

      Yes please, I miss mine so much. I wish I could see her again.. too bad she’s gone.. so soon.. please give your grandma hugs and just appreciate the small moments with her because you never know when she will be gone. Try your best to only have good memories. Thank you

  • @MyYoGangsta
    @MyYoGangsta 7 років тому +6

    I'm Lithuanian, and i have never seen this movie! Thank you for posting, this really touched me. It's beautiful. ❤

  • @shehabshazlawy
    @shehabshazlawy 7 років тому +11

    Gotta love Jonas mekas!!!
    One of my all time favorites

  • @JeSuisYeya
    @JeSuisYeya 7 років тому +5

    hearing clair de lune always has this pull on my heart and brings tears to my eyes for inexplicable reasons, and watching this, i have a reason

  • @bobrzadywersjaznadwieprza
    @bobrzadywersjaznadwieprza Рік тому +3

    „Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
    - Paul Bowles
    …and now my heart bleeds with longing, sadness and loneliness…
    …but it's OK to be sad sometimes…
    Thank You for this gem, Cyborg.

  • @CekiOgulcan
    @CekiOgulcan 7 років тому +11

    This video is just perfect, the granny gives its life! How beautiful is she?! ❤️

  • @idontknowwhattodoinlife6712
    @idontknowwhattodoinlife6712 3 роки тому +1

    I'm so happy i found this channel 😭😭😭 i love you whoever is managing this channel.

  • @dearimena7466
    @dearimena7466 6 років тому +119

    "I never let you down world, but you did lousy things to me"

    • @Ùœōøþř
      @Ùœōøþř 7 місяців тому

      I will never forget them my friends

  • @pumkxns7707
    @pumkxns7707 4 роки тому +3

    The choice of track was immaculate thank you.

  • @dilonvan3860
    @dilonvan3860 4 роки тому +7

    This summer i went to the Mediterranean coast. I went to a very small town where everyone was living in little houses and close to the port and a church, it was like lockdowns and the pandemic never happened there, it was like traveling to the past. I remember going on an old bike, running down the mountain to go to the beach. There was a way filled with orange trees and lavenders on the other side, as i was going down, i stooped, looked back and the mountain was far away with clouds on the top. That was maybe my most beautiful memory of my life so far. Sadly, my phone drowned on the beach and i loose all the pics i took there. But still, I will have them in my dreams and thoughts forever.

    • @deathchips926
      @deathchips926 Рік тому

      Very well described; I could very easily see your experience in my mind.
      The fact you lost your phone makes it all the more romantic. I am not a luddite, but there is no question these phones diminish the beauty of a good memory.

  • @klaatubaradanikto1490
    @klaatubaradanikto1490 7 років тому +5

    this song will never die. it is the narration for all things alive.

  • @doha8510
    @doha8510 7 років тому +22

    this is so beautiful

  • @amelie6838
    @amelie6838 6 років тому +4

    Cyborg, i love your channel so much
    You have made me feel what life is and fall in love with it so deeply that im six feet under and i cant come up again.Your music and movies have reignited the dreamer within. I still dont know what or who i am, but i dont want to know or seek for it anymore.
    Thank you
    Love,a.

  • @yourangel872
    @yourangel872 7 років тому +383

    There are brief glimpses of clear sky, like falling out of a tree, so I have some idea where I’m going, but there is still too much clarity and straight order of things, I am getting always the same number somehow.

    • @imcyborgbutthatsok
      @imcyborgbutthatsok  7 років тому +72

      The pain is stronger than ever. I’ve seen bit of lost paradises and I know I’ll be hopelessly trying to return even if it hurts. The deeper I swing into the regions of nothingness the further I’m thrown back into myself, each time more and more frightening depths below me, until my very being becomes dizzy. There are brief glimpses of clear sky, like falling out of a tree, so I have some idea where I’m going, but there is still too much clarity and straight order of things, I am getting always the same number somehow. So I vomit out broken bits of words and sintaxes of the countries I’ve passed through, broken limbs, slaughtered houses, geographies. My heart is poisoned, my brain left in shreds of horror and sadness. I’ve never let you down, world, but you did lousy things to me. This feeling of going nowhere, of being stuck, the feeling of Dante’s first strophe, as if afraid of the next step, next stage. As long as I don’t sum up myself, stay on the surface, I don’t have to move forwards, I don’t have to make painful and terrible decisions, choices, where to go and how. Because deeper there are terrible decisions to make, terrible steps to take. It’s at forty that we die, those who did not die at twenty. It is at forty that we betray ourselves, our bodies, our souls, by either staying on the surface or by going further but through the easiest decisions, retarding, throwing our souls back by thousands of incarnations. But I have come close to the end now, it’s the question will I make it or will I not. My life has become too painful and I keep asking myself, what am I doing to get out of where I am. What am I doing with my life.It took me long to realize that it’s love that distinguishes man from stones, trees, rain, and that we can lose our love and that love grows through loving, yes, I’ve been so completely lost, so truly lost. There were times I wanted to change the world, I wanted to take a gun and shoot my way through the Western Civilization. Now I want to leave others alone, they have their terrible fates to go. Now I want to shoot my own way through myself, into the thick night of myself. Thus I change my course, going inwards, thus I am jumping into my own darkness. There must be something, somehow, I feel, very soon, something that should give me some sign to move one or another direction. I must be very open and watchful now, completely open. I know it’s coming. I am walking like a somnambulist waiting for a secret signal, ready to go one or another way, listening into this huge white silence for the weakest signal or call. And I sit here alone and far from you and it’s night and I’m reflecting on everything all around me and I am thinking of you. I saw it in your eyes, in your love, you too are swinging towards the depths of your own being in longer and longer circles. I saw happiness and pain in your eyes and reflection of the Paradises lost and regained and lost again, that terrible loneliness and happiness, yes, and I reflect upon this and I think about you, like two lonely space pilots in outer cold space, as I sit here this late night alone and I think about all this.

    • @yourangel872
      @yourangel872 7 років тому +18

      And about you and for a brief moment i dont know for how long we meet. Somwhere between the words dream and space between the words perhaps and i am happy.As i look into the cold endless space passing by without sound without speed i mottled blue endless distance between us but i know you are there i can feel your heartbeat my love

    • @andriarobbins
      @andriarobbins 6 років тому +3

      i'm cyborg but that's ok Your magic has once again taken my breath away, I’m crying...your brilliance moves me✨❤️ I imagine the other lonely space pilot has been experiencing similar feelings, perhaps in disbelief that such a magic could exist, let alone have anything to do with them. I do so hope the two lonely space pilots find a way to be together...xo
      ✨👨🏻‍🚀💛👩🏻‍🚀✨

    • @kieranl5249
      @kieranl5249 5 років тому +2

      Alice InWonderlandia it’s from the movie dumbass

    • @aytansafarli7701
      @aytansafarli7701 5 років тому +1

      What movie is this from?

  • @MsStardallas
    @MsStardallas 7 років тому +37

    Im not the only one who cried

  • @joemccauley4563
    @joemccauley4563 6 років тому +7

    this is so spiritually restorative

  • @JayeKai
    @JayeKai 10 місяців тому

    I’m in tears and awe. Thank you for showing me what life is

  • @leyniaLip
    @leyniaLip Місяць тому

    One of the beat movies i have ever seen. Thank you, JM

  • @yuckysmucky
    @yuckysmucky 7 років тому +18

    i felt only peaceful watching this, very pretty

  • @kamilbeborodo5482
    @kamilbeborodo5482 7 років тому

    As I was watching some youtube videos I saw glimpse of magic. This video is truly magical. Thank you

  • @majakacerauskaite2478
    @majakacerauskaite2478 6 років тому +3

    This is so close to my heart

  • @AmiraYousfi
    @AmiraYousfi 7 років тому +7

    Dear I am cyborg but that's ok,
    i'd like to tell you that yes it is ok, everything will be ok
    your perception of moments is beyond what most of us can put into words.
    Your videos tell us stories about all these unknown personas, yet you deliver it in a way we actually know and relate to these personas. Time is so irrelevant in your portrayal of things, and no matter how these things can be so mundane, you somehow remind us that beauty and appreciation is always relevant.

  • @luke8079
    @luke8079 7 років тому +147

    time seems to stop doesnt it.

  • @janiceward2169
    @janiceward2169 6 років тому +1

    Beautiful simplicity..adore.❤

  • @vojsielk
    @vojsielk 7 років тому +7

    Lithuania my love. It is so touching.

  • @legmatheus
    @legmatheus 7 років тому +9

    Mekas ❤

  • @rolkaaaaa
    @rolkaaaaa 6 років тому +9

    rest in peace :(

  • @superlune960
    @superlune960 7 років тому +1

    Grand art. Beautiful and sad, my heart stopped...

  • @euridicevargas3432
    @euridicevargas3432 5 років тому +1

    Like a famous phrase say: There is so much beauty in the world

  • @joytucker6736
    @joytucker6736 7 років тому +17

    Подумала, что это Россия, а оказалось - Литва из старого фильма. Сейчас у нас тоже можно найти такие деревушки, возможно, с такими же старухами. На момент снятия фильма они были молодыми, а сейчас - совсем сморщились и стали один в один как свои давно ушедшие предки. Как беспощадно быстро мы стареем...

    • @ukrainietis57
      @ukrainietis57 6 років тому +1

      Šitie tai visur su savo Mordoru lenda, pasirodė jai mat... Jei ne jie, tai ir Mekui nereikėtų bėgti iš savo Tėvynės.

    • @ukrainietis57
      @ukrainietis57 5 років тому

      @RAINY Ką, tiesa nepatinka?

  • @evancollins2893
    @evancollins2893 7 років тому +3

    You are truly and wonderfully inspiring

  • @georgelamprakis7809
    @georgelamprakis7809 7 років тому +1

    this is beautiful work, id love to see more :)

  • @JewerlyAutomata
    @JewerlyAutomata 7 років тому +20

    NOO! I'm not crying

  • @xylan9543
    @xylan9543 2 роки тому +1

    Appreciate everything from the most insignificant to the most significant. All of this is just one big experience of everything and nothing.

  • @filipe5201
    @filipe5201 7 років тому +44

    esse vídeo só não é mais triste que a minha vida

  • @goesaway2325
    @goesaway2325 7 років тому +2

    Beautiful. Very Tarkovsky.
    pd. amazing channel, editing, taste, etc. :)

    • @goesaway2325
      @goesaway2325 7 років тому

      Claudio Rubegni yes i know. meant that the photography it reminded me of tarkovsky

  • @thegardenmuse2398
    @thegardenmuse2398 Рік тому

    Got this song stuck in my head from Moonstruck- Highly recommended classic!

  • @claramae_
    @claramae_ 2 роки тому

    So much love for this

  • @pascoalucrativa4489
    @pascoalucrativa4489 7 років тому +7

    Clair de lune aaaaa ❤

  • @mariane.o
    @mariane.o 7 років тому +6

    Obrigada!!

  • @rizkyindahsari1956
    @rizkyindahsari1956 7 років тому +3

    Im in love with this :')
    Always hypnotize by claire de lune

  • @paulinakania6021
    @paulinakania6021 6 років тому +6

    I don’t know why but this video is somehow the most special for me from all your videos, maybe because I’m from Poland and it’s like an Eastern European vibe? Idk but it is so so beautiful and I would also like to watch this movie but I can’t find it anywhere :(

    • @totoro_0__0_3
      @totoro_0__0_3 2 роки тому +1

      Were you able to find it in the 3 yrs? I'd love to watch this movie too..

    • @nicknameinuse1607
      @nicknameinuse1607 2 роки тому +1

      Its on criterion collection

  • @cili777
    @cili777 6 років тому +1

    very captivating

  • @seance-press
    @seance-press 6 років тому +4

    so long Jonas
    I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what's all about. What it all means. So when I began, now, to put all these rolls of film together, to string them together, the first idea was to keep them chronologic. But then I gave up, and I just began splicing them together by chance, the way that I found them on the shelf, because I really did not know where any piece of my life really belongs. So let it be. Let it go. Just by pure chance. Disorder. There is some kind of order in it, order of its own, which I do not really understand, same as I never understood life around me. The real life, as they say, or the real people. I never understood them. I still do not understand them, and I do not really want to understand them.

  • @69mrsteveo
    @69mrsteveo 7 років тому

    Thank you for your channel. It's gives me hope..

  • @lelemonster03
    @lelemonster03 2 роки тому

    Óbvio q esse canal tinha q ser fã desse querido. Tbm o amo.

  • @lizbetcitta1
    @lizbetcitta1 7 років тому +1

    Increible el sentimiento de profunda nostalgia que provoca este archivo es magnifico.

  • @user-ws2zq8rq2o
    @user-ws2zq8rq2o 5 років тому

    I am always amazed by your taste in movies 💝

  • @lucamidorikawa8629
    @lucamidorikawa8629 7 років тому +1

    a beautiful experience

  • @camyladuarte4964
    @camyladuarte4964 7 років тому +8

    Bateu uma saudade do meu pai, senti até a energia dele ouvindo essa música e vendo clipe. Ele tá tão longe... Mas senti! 💛

  • @PostPandemicMadonna
    @PostPandemicMadonna 7 років тому +3

    Beautiful❤

  • @danielfreire9457
    @danielfreire9457 7 років тому +18

    Simplesmente poético.

  • @margo8469
    @margo8469 6 років тому +3

    Lithuanian names on the wall, oh my heart!

  • @alycewangari
    @alycewangari 6 років тому +1

    it is so beautiful

  • @daisiesfromsaturn7901
    @daisiesfromsaturn7901 7 років тому

    Become so beautiful this video with this music!

  • @slippybeats377
    @slippybeats377 3 роки тому +8

    TWIM IS DETHRONED

  • @indigoslife1202
    @indigoslife1202 5 років тому

    Thank you for this beutiful video

  • @juliusadrianne2191
    @juliusadrianne2191 6 років тому +6

    whenever i hear clair de lune, i cri

  • @Singhamar313
    @Singhamar313 6 років тому +1

    rest in peace...........jonas mekas......I thought he’d never die. And he never will.

  • @onefishtwofish2771
    @onefishtwofish2771 2 роки тому +2

    When I had a body the world was so empty
    My eyes just lit up from the hundred suns and one bright moon
    When I had a body and the music was lonely
    A heart ached for someone I seeked forever
    When I had a body and the days were long
    I walked miles in the same home and dreamt of lost ones
    Woke up and opened the window
    Watched the kitten stretch and roll
    Those days I never felt my body and waited for my love to arrive
    I have a body today and I see through the glass veil
    Here and afterlife
    A heart that will never die again

  • @mubiedits
    @mubiedits 2 роки тому

    This is so intensely beautiful

  • @nemosimplitticus50
    @nemosimplitticus50 7 років тому +3

    Very cool

  • @szczesciejestkoloruczarneg749
    @szczesciejestkoloruczarneg749 7 років тому +6

    beautiful taste ♥

  • @rubyrodgers6056
    @rubyrodgers6056 5 років тому

    Cyborg you are amazing 🌙

  • @xebpersonne227
    @xebpersonne227 6 років тому +1

    R.I.P Jonas Mekas.
    SAD NEWS.

  • @HermanOtto-wr2nn
    @HermanOtto-wr2nn 10 місяців тому

    Pan Jonas Mekas wspaniały artysta filmowy to jest prawdziwa sztuka bez zabawy w jakąś stabilizację obrazu wymogi oszołomów nie znających się na sztuce filmowej pozdrawiam z Polski

  • @freetolisten
    @freetolisten 6 років тому

    wow, this is beautiful

  • @Wasp9513
    @Wasp9513 7 років тому +11

    Do some polish gems, like A woman Alone of Angiezka Holland, or Illumination by Zanussi. Maybe Ashes and Diamonds. Excellent video.

  • @missbandita3065
    @missbandita3065 7 років тому +3

    that video ❤❤❤

  • @venusohmygod
    @venusohmygod 3 роки тому

    left me sobbing

  • @xuxuuuuu
    @xuxuuuuu 7 років тому +5

    a melhor coisa que eu poderia ver hoje ❤️obrigada

  • @stuffstuff8942
    @stuffstuff8942 2 місяці тому

    You got a great taste in movies, friend

  • @miope2941
    @miope2941 Рік тому

    Nostalgia for a lost world

  • @spacecopper4397
    @spacecopper4397 6 років тому

    Awesome channel!!

  • @kristinabreznalorkova615
    @kristinabreznalorkova615 7 років тому +4

    I'd love to see Pasla kone na betone on this channel :)

  • @SomeOne-tp6xr
    @SomeOne-tp6xr 7 років тому +7

    essa melodia é linda

  • @parsashirkhani4776
    @parsashirkhani4776 7 років тому +1

    love it

  • @AmandaAraujo-qt5tp
    @AmandaAraujo-qt5tp 7 років тому +3

    Debussy, perfeição

  • @yourmother4328
    @yourmother4328 7 років тому

    This is art

  • @Simba.official99
    @Simba.official99 7 місяців тому

    I came back from 2014 to rewatch this

  • @pastorvaleriemoore5180
    @pastorvaleriemoore5180 5 років тому

    Family is so beautiful

  • @teguhfebriyanto8695
    @teguhfebriyanto8695 7 років тому +2

    This is so beautifuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul