“ Mekas was referring to himself several times as a writer and therefore his camera became a pen. And I mean, Mekas took a lot of time to make a point with his camera. Perfecting his tools, namely time, image and sound, he developed a skill of an artistic distance that enables him to insist on his reality. And with this skill he was attaching himself to reality and giving this reality to his viewer. More importantly, in Mekas reality artists did exist as real people with a real agenda. And the reality of an artist was undoubted and celebrated. “