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Jonas Mekas
Directing
24 Dec 1922
† 23 Jan 2019
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Biography
Jonas Mekas (12-24-1922 - 1-23-2019) 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...
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Jonas Mekas's Movies
68%
The Velvet Underground
15 Oct 2021
76%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
05 Nov 2000
70%
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
02 Aug 1972
42%
Empire
06 Mar 1965
70%
Imagine
23 Dec 1972
72%
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
01 Mar 1968
72%
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
01 Mar 1968
74%
Song of Avignon
03 Jul 1998
65%
What Is Cinema?
06 Sept 2013
70%
Lost, Lost, Lost
14 Sept 1976
59%
River of Fundament
12 Feb 2014
74%
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
15 Mar 2002
79%
Step Across the Border
18 May 1990
68%
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
24 Jul 2011
70%
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
09 Apr 2011
61%
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
20 Aug 2020
78%
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
12 Aug 2022
75%
Nico Icon
08 Sept 1995
65%
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
01 Dec 2012
82%
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
22 Feb 1986
