Avant garde cinema is alive and well! Jonas Mekas, the godfather of "new american cinema," pioneer of the diary film, founder of Anthology Film Archives, the Filmmaker's Co-op, and Film Culture magazine is about to unleash 365 brand new short films onto the internet. At any age--Mekas is 83--that's quite an undertaking. This monumentally small project (you can put them on your ipod) may quiet those who are constantly declaring every so-and-so with a camcorder and a computer the inventor of a new genre. Diary filmmaking has obviously been around for quite some time and Mekas is truly a master of the form. So if you missed the recent screening of Letter From Greenpoint at the Museum of the Moving Image like I did, there's no need to worry; you'll soon get your experimental film fix--a whole year's worth! According to an article in New York Magazine the series should be starting this friday, but the date is hardly set in stone. For the latest updates you can subscribe to the mailing list at www.jonasmekas.com and get a warm video welcome from the man himself.