Jonas Mekas
Known for: Directing
Born: December 24, 1922
Died: January 23, 2019
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 beg…
Known for
My Country is Cinema
1998
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
2019
Notes for a Déjà vu
2022
All About Bolex
2015
A Report from Venice
2015
Back from New York
2021
Lavender
2010
My Birthday
2014
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
2012
Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
2002
Jonas Mekas Anthology
2022
Fragments of Paradise
2022
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
The Lamb
J. Mekas
1980
Viva Jonas!
Jonas
1968
I Had Nowhere to Go
2016
Reminiscences from Germany
2012
The Song of Avila
1967
Jonas in the Brig
1965
Self-Portrait
1980
Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
2007
Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
1996
Laboratorium Anthology
1999
Visionaries
2010
New York Conversations
2010
Question a Day
2008
Letter to John from Jonas
1999
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
2000
Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
2010
Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
2019
A Letter from Greenpoint
2004
A Matter of Baobab
1968
Makeshift (for Mekas)
2019
A Letter to Penny Arcade
2001
Self Discovery for Social Survival
2019
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019
My Mars Bar Movie
2011
365 Day Project
2007
Empire
1965
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011
Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October
1996
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Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas
1966
Not in Our Name
2003
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008
The Song of Central Park
2006
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011
Tapes
2020
Elegy for J.M.
2019
Jonas Towards Broadway
2019
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Axiom of Choice
2003
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016
Cinématon n°1590 : Jonas Mekas
EXPRMNTL
2016
Sunday December 30, 2007
2007
Jonas Mekas in Budapest
1993
The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
1993
Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97
1998
Shooting Guns
1966
Jonas in the Jungle
2013
Últimas correspondencias
2016
Jonas' Independence Speech at the Anniversary of the Filmmaker's Cooperative
2006
Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC
2006
End of the Millennium Espresso
2006
Imperfect Film
2006
Taping for As I was Moving Ahead…
2006
Kreutzer Sonata
2006
Persistence of Vision
1984
The Signing
2009
Anger Me
2006
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
1992
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997
Vertigo
2022
Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas
1991
Notes for Jerome
1978
Guest
2011
Four Shadows
1978
On the Holy Spirit
2016
Step Across the Border
1990
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017
Journey to Lithuania
1971
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
2018
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
Nitsch
2018
Paradise Not Yet Lost
1979
Song of Avignon
1998
The Invisible Father
2021
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
2006
Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971
1971
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015
Michael Snow Up Close
1996
Belladonna
1989
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
1970
The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
2009
Diane the Zebra Woman
1962
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
Going Home
1972
Award
1992
Beyond the Bolex
2018
Quartet Number One
1991
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
2020
Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
2005
Doc
2008
Just Visiting This Planet
1991
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
Salvador Dalí at Work
1964
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980
Underground New York
1968
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974
Filmmakers
1969
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019
Notes in Lifestyle Margins
2002
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
9/11: Life Under Attack
2021
The Velvet Underground
2021
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
Postcard from America
1975
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
The Definition of Insanity
2005
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
1989
Excavating Taylor Mead
2005
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990
Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2015
A Mixtape for Stom
2025
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
Galaxie
1966
Poem Posters
1967
Who Gets to Call It Art?
2006
Imagine
1972
The Sin of Jesus
1961
Cinema and Sanctuary
2019
Jonas in the Desert
1994
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008
ORG
1979
What Is Cinema?
2013
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1981
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
The Love Merchant
1966
Dirt
1965
Nico Icon
1995
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
My Conversations on Film
2013
It Came from Kuchar
2009
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007
Strong Medicine
1981
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
River of Fundament
2014
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Cinématon
1978
Kulturplatz
2004