Jonas Mekas

🎂 Data nașterii: 1922-12-24 (Semeniškiai, Lithuania)

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 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.

Jonas Mekas

Filme în care a jucat

My Country is Cinema

Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1

The Velvet Underground

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

Notes for a Déjà vu

Cinema and Sanctuary

Strong Medicine

Persistence of Vision

All About Bolex

A Report from Venice

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Sugrįžę iš Niujorko

Michael Snow Up Close

The Signing

Anger Me

Lavender

My Birthday

Home Movies 1971-81

Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man

Ginsberg - egy költö a Lower East Side-ról

Belladonna

Jonas tourne toujours

River of Fundament

眩暈 Vertigo

Galaxie

Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas

Jono Meko antologija

Fragments of Paradise

Notes for Jerome

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

The Lamb

J. Mekas

Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo

Guest

Viva Jonas!

Doc

Just Visiting This Planet

Jonas

Maya Deren, Take Zero

The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'

Four Shadows

Diane the Zebra Woman

On the Holy Spirit

I Had Nowhere to Go

Im Spiegel der Maya Deren

Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland

The Song of Avila

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Step Across the Border

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

The Definition of Insanity

I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

The Love Merchant

Going Home

Notes on Marie Menken

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Salvador Dalí at Work

No. 18: Mahagonny

Jonas in the Brig

Underground New York

ORG

Self-Portrait

Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007

Mes entretiens filmés

Meet The Kuchar Brothers

Jonas in the Desert

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

Filmmakers

Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old

Journey to Lithuania

Laboratorium Anthology

Invocation: Maya Deren

It Came from Kuchar