“Mekas's process is retrospective,” Ed Halter observed in the Village Voice. “Having shot footage compulsively and intuitively since his arrival in the U.S. from Lithuania in 1949, he revisits the images, sometimes decades later, to craft new, lightly edited works. Consequently, his films quiver with the complex temporal disjunctions reminiscent of the mind's less material memories, enhanced by Mekas's distinctive cinematographic style, which mimics the fluctuating kinetic pulses and extempore refocusings of everyday perception.” Travel Songs (Filmed 1967–81, edited 2003, 24 mins, Silent, Color) compiles five silent “songs” composed of previously unseen footage of Mekas's travels, to Moscow, Stockholm, and Italy. Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Filmed 1949–50, edited 2002, 15 mins, Silent, B&W) captures neighborhood immigrant life and includes “my first attempts at cinema, with my first Bolex, just after landing in New York” (JM). Mysteries (Filmed 1966, released 2002, 38 mins, B&W) draws on a performance by The Living Theatre. In 2000, Philip Glass, Jon Gigson, and Howie Statland provided an improvised soundtrack.