Jonas Mekas
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday24 December 1922
Died23 January 2019 (age 96)
Place of birthSemeniškiai, Lithuania
Known credits281
Biography
Jonas Mekas (24-12-1922 - 23-1-2019) was born 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…
A Mixtape for Stom
2025
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
Jonas Mekas Anthology
2022 · Jonas Mekas
Fragments of Paradise
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022 · Self
Vertigo
2022
Notes for a Déjà vu
2022
Back from New York
2021 · Himself
The Velvet Underground
2021 · Self
9/11: Life Under Attack
2021 · Self
The Invisible Father
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Tapes
2020
Tapes
2020 · Director
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
2020 · Himself
Elegy for J.M.
2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019
Requiem
2019 · Director
Cinema and Sanctuary
2019 · Self
Self Discovery for Social Survival
2019 · Narrator (voice)
Self Discovery for Social Survival
2019 · Writer
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019 · Self
Makeshift (for Mekas)
2019
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
2019 · Self
Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
2019
Jonas Towards Broadway
2019
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Beyond the Bolex
2018 · Self
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
2018 · Self
Nitsch
2018
From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac
2017 · Director
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017 · Self
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017 · Director
From the diaries of a cinema maniac
2017 · Director
Crickets
2017 · Director
On the Holy Spirit
2016
On the Holy Spirit
2016 · Director
EXPRMNTL
2016 · himself
I Had Nowhere to Go
2016 · Himself
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016 · Self
Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera
2016 · Director
Últimas correspondencias
2016 · Self
Últimas correspondencias
2016 · Director
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015 · Sé stesso
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015 · Self
Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2015
A Report from Venice
2015
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