Jonas Mekas [1092208]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.271
Birthplace: Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Birthday: 1922-12-24
Deathday: 2019-01-23
Age: 96 years
Movies: 142
Links: Homepage, IMDB
Biography: Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. In 1944, he and his brother Adolfas were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Elmshorn, Germany. After the War he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz. At the end of 1949 the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York City, where they settled down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Two months after his arrival in New York he borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. He soon got deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement. In 1954, together with his brother, he started Film Culture magazine, which soon became the most important film publication in the US. In 1958 he began his legendary Movie Journal column in the Village Voice. In 1962 he founded the Film-Makers' Cooperative, and in 1964 the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema, and a screening venue. During all this time he continued writing poetry and making films. To this date he has published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, which have been translated into over a dozen languages. His Lithuanian poetry is now part of Lithuanian classic literature and his films can be found in leading museums around the world. He is largely credited for developing the diaristic forms of cinema. Mekas has also been active as an academic, teaching at the New School for Social Research, the International Center for Photography, Cooper Union, New York University, and MIT. Mekas' film The Brig was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. Other films include Walden (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), Lost Lost Lost (1975), Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), As I was Moving Ahead I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), Letter from Greenpoint (2005), Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) and Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man. In 2007, he completed a series of 365 short films released on the internet -- one film every day -- and since then has continued to share new work on his website. Since 2000, Mekas has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Moderna Museet (Stockholm), PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA, Documenta of Kassel, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Venice Biennale.

Nam June Paik: M
2023-03-24
Please Leave a M
2022-09-21
Jonas Mekas Anth
2022-09-03
Fragments of Par
2022-08-31
Vertigo
2022-07-13
Notes for a Déj
2022-02-21
Back from New Yo
2021-10-25
Film: The Living
2022-08-12
The Velvet Under
2021-10-15
Tapes
2020-09-14
Tiny Tim: King f
2020-08-20
The Invisible Fa
2021-03-19
Elegy for J.M.
2019-12-16
Sebastian and Jo
2019-11-03
Cinema and Sanct
2019-06-20
Self Discovery f
2019-06-15
Gena Rowlands: A
2019-06-05
Makeshift (for M
2019-05-25
Last Interview F
2019-04-08
Keep singing: a
2019-01-31
3 Friends Singin
2019-01-01
Jonas Towards Br
2019-01-01
Beyond the Bolex
2018-11-08
Barbara Rubin an
2018-05-02
George: The Stor
2018-02-21
Nitsch
2018-01-29
I Don't Know Whi
2017-09-01
On the Holy Spir
2016-10-22
EXPRMNTL
2016-10-08
I Had Nowhere to
2016-08-04
Reminiscences of
2016-05-29
A Day in the Lif
2015-08-25
A Report from Ve
2015-06-01
All About Bolex
2015-01-01
My Birthday
2014-12-23
River of Fundame
2014-02-12
My Conversations
2013-10-13
What Is Cinema?
2013-09-06
Out-Takes from t
2012-12-01
Maya Deren, Take
2012-01-30
Reminiscences fr
2012-01-01
My Mars Bar Movi
2011-10-06
3.11 A Sense of
2011-09-11
Free Radicals: A
2011-07-24
Cinematic Corres
2011-04-09
Re: Maciunas and
2011-01-01
Portrait Serie -
2010-10-14
New York Convers
2010-09-21
Guest
2011-03-25
Lavender
2010-06-01
Visionaries
2010-01-01
Jonas Mekas in K
2009-12-31
It Came from Kuc
2009-09-22
The Perfect Team
2009-01-01
The Signing
2009-01-01
Doc
2008-12-09
Andy Warhol's Fa
2008-01-01
Question a Day
2008-01-01
365 Day Project
2007-12-31
Sunday December
2007-12-30
Tuesday Jan. 9,
2007-01-09
The Song of Cent
2006-11-11
Anger Me
2006-10-23
Jack Smith and t
2007-04-11
Notes on Marie M
2006-04-20
Who Gets to Call
2006-02-01
Meet The Kuchar
2006-01-01
The Definition o
2005-12-10
Notes on an Amer
2008-01-01
Excavating Taylo
2005-10-08
A Letter from Gr
2004-04-22
Not in Our Name
2003-12-31
Axiom of Choice
2003-01-01
Jonas Keeps Shoo
2002-08-01
In the Mirror of
2002-03-15
Notes in Lifesty
2002-03-11
TO NEW YORK WITH
2001-06-23
As I Was Moving
2000-11-05
Requiem for a Ma
2000-02-09
Letter to John f
1999-03-06
Laboratorium Ant
1999-01-01
Song of Avignon
1998-07-03
My Country is Ci
1998-01-01
Scenes from Alle
1997-07-03
A Poet from the
1997-01-01
Jonas Mekas, Fri
1996-12-31
Cinema Is Not 10
1996-01-01
Michael Snow Up
1996-01-01
Nico Icon
1995-02-18
Jonas in the Des
1994-01-01
Jonas Mekas in B
1993-11-01
Zefiro Torna or
1992-12-31
Award
1992-01-01
Just Visiting Th
1991-09-05
Quartet Number O
1991-07-03
Interview and Re
1991-01-01
Superstar: The L
1990-07-18
Step Across the
1990-09-08
Belladonna
1989-05-22
Warhol's Cinema
1989-01-01
Invocation: Maya
1986-04-24
He Stands in a D
1986-02-22
Fire in the East
1986-01-01
Home Movies 1971
1985-01-01
Persistence of V
1984-01-01
Strong Medicine
1981-11-25
No. 18: Mahagonn
1980-09-13
Self-Portrait
1980-06-07
J. Mekas
1980-01-01
ORG
1979-08-31
Paradise Not Yet
1979-07-03
Four Shadows
1978-10-03
Notes for Jerome
1978-07-03
Cinématon
1978-12-20
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976-09-14
Postcard from Am
1975-01-01
‘Rameau’s Ne
1974-11-05
Imagine
1972-12-23
Going Home
1972-10-04
Reminiscences of
1996-08-30
Journey to Lithu
1971-01-01
Occhio privato s
1970-01-01
A Matter of Baob
1970-01-01
Filmmakers
1969-01-01
Diaries, Notes,
2013-11-23
Underground New
1968-01-01
Jonas
1968-01-01
The Song of Avil
1967-12-31
Poem Posters
1967-05-19
Screen Test [ST2
1966-12-31
Galaxie
1966-09-03
The Love Merchan
1966-01-01
Andy Warhol Scre
1965-11-28
Dirt
1965-09-25
Jonas in the Bri
1965-09-10
Award Presentati
1965-09-03
Empire
1965-03-06
The Queen of She
1981-08-01
Diane the Zebra
1962-01-01
The Sin of Jesus
1961-12-10
Viva Jonas!
Cinématon n°15