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Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas
  • Name: Jonas Mekas
  • Birthday: 1922-12-24
  • Place of birth: Semeniškiai, Lithuania
  • Popularity: 0.06
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... Read More

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Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV   as  Self (archive footage) 2023-03-24
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages 2022-09-21
Jonas Mekas Anthology   as  Jonas Mekas 2022-09-03
Fragments of Paradise   as  Self (archive footage) 2022-08-31
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory   as  Self 2022-08-12
Vertigo 2022-07-13
Notes for a Déjà vu 2022-02-21
Back from New York   as  Himself 2021-10-25
The Velvet Underground   as  Self 2021-10-15
The Invisible Father   as  Self (archive footage) 2021-03-19
Tapes 2020-09-14
Tiny Tim: King for a Day   as  Himself 2020-08-20
Elegy for J.M. 2019-12-16
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party 2019-11-03
Cinema and Sanctuary   as  Self 2019-06-20
Self Discovery for Social Survival   as  Narrator (voice) 2019-06-15
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film   as  Self 2019-06-05
Makeshift (for Mekas) 2019-05-25
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1   as  Self 2019-04-08
Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas 2019-01-31
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) 2019-01-01
Jonas Towards Broadway 2019-01-01
Beyond the Bolex   as  Self 2018-11-08
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground 2018-05-02
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus   as  Self 2018-02-21
Nitsch 2018-01-29
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance   as  Self 2017-09-01
On the Holy Spirit 2016-10-22
EXPRMNTL   as  himself 2016-10-08
I Had Nowhere to Go   as  Himself 2016-08-04
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas   as  Self 2016-05-29
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol   as  Self 2015-08-25
A Report from Venice 2015-06-01
All About Bolex 2015-01-01
My Birthday 2014-12-23
River of Fundament   as  Wake Guest 2014-02-12
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches   as  self 2013-11-23
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches   as  Self 2013-11-23
My Conversations on Film   as  Himself 2013-10-13
What Is Cinema?   as  Self 2013-09-06
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man   as  Jonas Mekas 2012-12-01
Maya Deren, Take Zero   as  Himself 2012-01-30
Reminiscences from Germany   as  Himself 2012-01-01
3.11 A Sense of Home   as  Himself (voice) (segment "Mt. Ventoux") 2011-11-04
My Mars Bar Movie   as  himself 2011-10-06
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film   as  Himself 2011-07-24
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin   as  Himself 2011-04-09
Guest   as  Self 2011-03-25
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus 2011-01-01
Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas   as  himself 2010-10-14
New York Conversations 2010-09-21
Lavender   as  Self 2010-06-01
Visionaries   as  Himself 2010-01-01
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days   as  Himself 2009-12-31
It Came from Kuchar   as  Self (archive footage) 2009-09-22
The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'   as  Self 2009-01-01
The Signing 2009-01-01
Doc   as  Himself 2008-12-09
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory 2008-01-01
Question a Day 2008-01-01
Notes on an American Film Director at Work   as  Self 2008-01-01
365 Day Project   as  Self 2007-12-31
Sunday December 30, 2007   as  Self 2007-12-30
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis   as  Self 2007-04-11
Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007   as  Self 2007-01-09
Salvador Dalí at Work   as  Self 2006-11-11
The Song of Central Park   as  Himself (voice) 2006-11-11
Anger Me   as  Himself 2006-10-23
Notes on Marie Menken   as  Self 2006-04-20
Who Gets to Call It Art?   as  Self 2006-02-01
Meet The Kuchar Brothers 2006-01-01
The Definition of Insanity 2005-12-10
Excavating Taylor Mead   as  Self 2005-10-08
A Letter from Greenpoint   as  Mekas 2004-04-22
Not in Our Name   as  himself 2003-12-31
Axiom of Choice   as  Self 2003-01-01
Jonas Keeps Shooting Around   as  Himself 2002-08-01
In the Mirror of Maya Deren   as  Himself 2002-03-15
Notes in Lifestyle Margins 2002-03-11
TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penny Arcade June 25, 2001 2001-06-23
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty   as  Narrator (voice) 2000-11-05
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter   as  Himself 2000-02-09
Letter to John from Jonas 1999-03-06
Laboratorium Anthology   as  Himself 1999-01-01
Song of Avignon   as  Self 1998-07-03
My Country is Cinema   as  Self 1998-01-01
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit   as  Self 1997-07-03
A Poet from the Lower East Side   as  Self 1997-01-01
Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October   as  Himself 1996-12-31
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania   as  Self 1996-08-30
Michael Snow Up Close   as  Himself 1996-01-01
Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old   as  Himself 1996-01-01
Nico Icon   as  Himself 1995-02-18
Jonas in the Desert   as  Self 1994-01-01
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus) 1992-12-31
Award   as  Himself 1992-01-01
Just Visiting This Planet 1991-09-05
Quartet Number One 1991-07-03
Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas   as  Himself 1991-01-01
Step Across the Border   as  Butterfly Wing 1990-09-08
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol   as  Self 1990-07-18
Belladonna 1989-05-22
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties   as  Self 1989-01-01
Invocation: Maya Deren   as  Himself 1986-04-24
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life   as  Self (archive footage) 1986-02-22
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank   as  Self 1986-01-01
Home Movies 1971-81 1985-01-01
Persistence of Vision   as  Self 1984-01-01
Strong Medicine 1981-11-25
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man 1981-08-01
No. 18: Mahagonny   as  Self 1980-09-13
Self-Portrait   as  Himself 1980-06-07
J. Mekas   as  Self 1980-01-01
ORG   as  Self (archive footage) 1979-08-31
Paradise Not Yet Lost   as  Himself 1979-07-03
Cinématon   as  N°1590 1978-12-20
Four Shadows 1978-10-03
Notes for Jerome   as  Self 1978-07-03
Lost, Lost, Lost   as  Self 1976-09-14
Postcard from America 1975-01-01
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen 1974-11-05
Imagine   as  Self 1972-12-23
Going Home   as  Himself 1972-10-04
Journey to Lithuania   as  Himself 1971-01-01
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo 1970-01-01
A Matter of Baobab 1970-01-01
Filmmakers   as  Himself 1969-01-01
Underground New York   as  Self 1968-01-01
Jonas   as  Himself 1968-01-01
The Song of Avila   as  Narrator 1967-12-31
Poem Posters   as  Self 1967-05-19
Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas   as  himself 1966-12-31
Galaxie   as  Self 1966-09-03
The Love Merchant   as  Lounge Patron 1966-01-01
Andy Warhol Screen Tests   as  Self 1965-11-28
Dirt 1965-09-25
Jonas in the Brig   as  Himself 1965-09-10
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol   as  Self 1965-09-03
Empire   as  Self (uncredited) 1965-03-06
Diane the Zebra Woman 1962-01-01
The Sin of Jesus 1961-12-10