Jonas Mekas reflects on summers spent in the late 1960s and early 1970s with Jackie Kennedy, her sister Lee Radziwill, and their families. Blending personal footage with diary narration, the film captures intimate moments of friendship, cinema, and healing in the years following John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Cinematography
Mekas's flickering 16mm turns Martha's Vineyard into memory itself.
Editing
Chronology shattered; time folds like summer afternoons that never end.
Production
No budget, no crew—just a poet with his friends and a camera.
Director
Jonas Mekas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mekas shot most footage 1969-1972 but sat on it for decades; Jackie died in 1994, JFK Jr. in 1999, making this a posthumous portrait of a family he outlived.
Mekas, godfather of American avant-garde cinema, here becomes accidental paparazzo—his 'diary film' aesthetic would influence everything from Instagram stories to HBO's 'The Jinx.'
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