Jonas Mekas
Directing
Born: 1922-12-24 · Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Died: 2019-01-23
Biography
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
🎬 Movies (30)
A Mixtape for Stom
2025
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
Self (archive footage)
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
Self
Notes for a Déjà vu
2022
Vertigo
2022
Jonas Mekas Anthology
2022
Jonas Mekas
Fragments of Paradise
2022
Self (archive footage)
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
The Velvet Underground
2021
Self
Back from New York
2021
Himself
The Invisible Father
2021
Self (archive footage)
9/11: Life Under Attack
2021
Self
Tapes
2020
Director
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
2020
Himself
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
2019
Self
Cinema and Sanctuary
2019
Self
Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
2019
Makeshift (for Mekas)
2019
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019
Self
Self Discovery for Social Survival
2019
Narrator (voice)
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Jonas Towards Broadway
2019
Elegy for J.M.
2019
Requiem
2019
Director
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
2018
Self
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
Nitsch
2018
Beyond the Bolex
2018
Self
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017
Director
