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Jonas Mekas

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  • 1922 - Present Day

Biography

Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. He currently lives and works in New York City. 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.

Homepage: http://jonasmekas.com

Birthday: 1922-12-24

Casted In:

Anger Me
75331
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
85822
Imagine
91458
Im Spiegel der Maya Deren
92348
The Love Merchant
95568
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
95606
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
105583
Empire
108419
Step Across the Border
112785
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
120249
Nico Icon
124626
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
130824
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
146347
Lost, Lost, Lost
148807
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
148811
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
190060
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
190972
A Poet from the Lower East Side
193365
Belladonna
195489
Notes on Marie Menken
213825
What is Cinema?
219292
Galaxie
230420
Mes entretiens filmés
230868
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
238690
ORG
239211
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
246694
River of Fundament
255615
Cinématon
272074
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
280073
Paradise Not Yet Lost (aka Oona's Third Year)
280082
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
280086
Song of Avignon
280105
Who Gets to Call It Art?
292531
Dirt
311679
Just Visiting This Planet
373075
Jonas
378323
Maya Deren, Take Zero
383566
Diane the Zebra Woman
401330
I Had Nowhere to Go
408378
Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland
420467
The Song of Avila
434523
Jonas in the Desert
458074

Crewed In:

Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's 'Imagine' Album
34031
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
105583
Empire
108419
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
130824
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
146347
Lost, Lost, Lost
148807
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
148811
Hallelujah the Hills
161741
WTC Haikus
162281
Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
162476
Guns of the Trees
165356
The Brig
165361
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
190060
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
190972
42 One Dream Rush
191476
Elvis
216516
Sleepless Nights Stories
227048
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
227297
Happy Birthday to John
227302
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
227308
Cassis
238619
Notes on the Circus
238623
Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR
263137
Hare Krishna
270765
The Sixties Quartet
280072
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
280073
The Velvet Underground
280077
In Between
280078
John & Yoko Bed-In
280079
Notes for Jerome
280080
Paradise Not Yet Lost (aka Oona's Third Year)
280082
Three Friends
280083
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
280086
To Barbara Rubin with Love
280087
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
280088
Report from Millbrook
280091
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
280093
Dedication to Matsuo Basho
280095
A Visit to Timothy Leary
280098
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
280099
Travel Songs
280100
Quartet Number One
280102
Imperfect Three-Image Films
280103
Song of Avignon
280105
Birth of a Nation
295120
A Letter from Greenpoint
336941
Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum
353220
Day Nine
353221
Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham
376604
A Walk
397923
3.11 A Sense of Home
398149
Notes on an American Film Director at Work: Martin Scorsese
402970
Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland
420467
Self-Portrait
420468
Film Magazine of the Arts
423889
Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio
423890
The Italian Notebook
427690
The Song of Moscow
434493
The Song of Avila
434523
Street Songs
440715
Mob of Angels: Baptism
440717
Salvador Dali at Work
441358
A Daydream
514949
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