Jonas Mekas
Directing
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…
Filmography
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A Mixtape for Stom
2025
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
Jonas Mekas Anthology
2022
Fragments of Paradise
2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
Vertigo
2022
Notes for a Déjà vu
2022
Back from New York
2021
The Velvet Underground
2021
9/11: Life Under Attack
2021
The Invisible Father
2021
Tapes
2020
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
2020
Elegy for J.M.
2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019
Cinema and Sanctuary
2019
Self Discovery for Social Survival
2019
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019
Makeshift (for Mekas)
2019
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
2019
Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
2019
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Jonas Towards Broadway
Jonas Towards Broadway
2019
Beyond the Bolex
2018
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
2018
Nitsch
2018
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017
On the Holy Spirit
2016
EXPRMNTL
2016
I Had Nowhere to Go
2016
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016
Últimas correspondencias
2016
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2015
A Report from Venice
2015
All About Bolex
2015
My Birthday
2014
River of Fundament
2014
My Conversations on Film
2013
Jonas in the Jungle
Jonas in the Jungle
2013
What Is Cinema?
2013
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
Reminiscences from Germany
2012
My Mars Bar Movie
2011
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011
Guest
2011
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
2010
New York Conversations
2010
Lavender
2010
Visionaries
2010
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009
It Came from Kuchar
2009
The Signing
2009
The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
2009
Doc
2008
Question a Day
2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008
365 Day Project
2007
Sunday December 30, 2007
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007
Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
2007
The Song of Central Park
2006
Anger Me
2006
Notes on Marie Menken
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
Who Gets to Call It Art?
2006
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
2006
The Definition of Insanity
2005
Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
2005
Excavating Taylor Mead
2005
Kulturplatz
2004