Guns of the Trees

Name: Guns of the Trees
Rating: 7.1

Don’t take the poet’s anger for hysterics. When you hear a poet shouting, think about your own existence which is in danger.

Not Rated Drama

Starring: Frances Stillman, Ben Carruthers, Adolfas Mekas, Argus Spear Juillard, Frank Kuenstler

Writer: Jonas Mekas

Release Date:
February 28, 1961

Ratings:
7.1 / 10

Director:
Jonas Mekas

Companies:
NACG

Overview

Barbara, a young woman consumed by despair, contemplates suicide, while a man she meets in a church and a married couple struggle to persuade her that life is still worth living. Mekas’s film weaves this intimate drama into a larger reflection on alienation, politics, and the turbulence of early 1960s America.

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