Jonas Mekas
Director
- Born
- December 24, 1922
- Died
- January 23, 2019 (age 96)
- From
- 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,…
Filmography (275)
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 AgesPlease 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)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)
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film (2019)Self
Makeshift (for Mekas) (2019)- Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1 (2019)Self
Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas (2019)- 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) (2019)
- Jonas Towards BroadwayJonas Towards Broadway (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 ManiacFrom the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac (2017)Director