Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 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
My Country is Cinema
⭐ 0Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
⭐ 0The Velvet Underground
⭐ 6.795Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
⭐ 8.6Notes for a Déjà vu
⭐ 0Cinema and Sanctuary
⭐ 0Strong Medicine
⭐ 5.6Persistence of Vision
⭐ 0All About Bolex
⭐ 0A Report from Venice
⭐ 0Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
⭐ 6.857Back from New York
⭐ 0Michael Snow Up Close
⭐ 6The Signing
⭐ 0Anger Me
⭐ 8.8Lavender
⭐ 0My Birthday
⭐ 6Home Movies 1971-81
⭐ 0Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
⭐ 5.8As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
⭐ 7.8Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
⭐ 6.5A Poet from the Lower East Side
⭐ 0Belladonna
⭐ 0Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
⭐ 5River of Fundament
⭐ 6.6Vertigo
⭐ 0Galaxie
⭐ 0Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas
⭐ 0Jonas Mekas Anthology
⭐ 0Fragments of Paradise
⭐ 6.7Notes for Jerome
⭐ 0Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
⭐ 0The Lamb
⭐ 0J. Mekas
⭐ 0Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
⭐ 0Guest
⭐ 6Viva Jonas!
⭐ 0Doc
⭐ 0Just Visiting This Planet
⭐ 0Jonas
⭐ 0Maya Deren, Take Zero
⭐ 5The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
⭐ 0Four Shadows
⭐ 7Diane the Zebra Woman
⭐ 9On the Holy Spirit
⭐ 0I Had Nowhere to Go
⭐ 0In the Mirror of Maya Deren
⭐ 7.4Reminiscences from Germany
⭐ 0The Song of Avila
⭐ 6.4He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
⭐ 8.2Step Across the Border
⭐ 8Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
⭐ 5.2The Definition of Insanity
⭐ 10I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
⭐ 8The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
⭐ 6The Love Merchant
⭐ 4.9Going Home
⭐ 5.4Notes on Marie Menken
⭐ 5.4Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
⭐ 6.9Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
⭐ 6.6Salvador Dalí at Work
⭐ 5No. 18: Mahagonny
⭐ 5.5Jonas in the Brig
⭐ 0Underground New York
⭐ 0ORG
⭐ 5.3Self-Portrait
⭐ 0Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
⭐ 0My Conversations on Film
⭐ 3.2Meet The Kuchar Brothers
⭐ 0Jonas in the Desert
⭐ 5.5Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
⭐ 6.7‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
⭐ 7.9Filmmakers
⭐ 0Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
⭐ 0Journey to Lithuania
⭐ 0Laboratorium Anthology
⭐ 0Invocation: Maya Deren
⭐ 5It Came from Kuchar
⭐ 7Visionaries
⭐ 6Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
⭐ 7New York Conversations
⭐ 0George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
⭐ 7Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
⭐ 0What Is Cinema?
⭐ 6.4Question a Day
⭐ 0Letter to John from Jonas
⭐ 0Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
⭐ 0Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
⭐ 0Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
⭐ 0Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
⭐ 0Poem Posters
⭐ 0Excavating Taylor Mead
⭐ 0A Letter from Greenpoint
⭐ 0Makeshift (for Mekas)
⭐ 6A Matter of Baobab
⭐ 0TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penny Arcade June 25, 2001
⭐ 6Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
⭐ 7.2Self Discovery for Social Survival
⭐ 5.4Nitsch
⭐ 0Dirt
⭐ 8A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
⭐ 5Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
⭐ 6.5Award
⭐ 0Andy Warhol Screen Tests
⭐ 8Nico Icon
⭐ 7.5Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
⭐ 7.3Who Gets to Call It Art?
⭐ 6.7Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
⭐ 0My Mars Bar Movie
⭐ 0Imagine
⭐ 7Cinématon
⭐ 4.3Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
⭐ 3.5Paradise Not Yet Lost
⭐ 0Beyond the Bolex
⭐ 7365 Day Project
⭐ 10Empire
⭐ 4.2Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
⭐ 7.4Lost, Lost, Lost
⭐ 7Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
⭐ 0Quartet Number One
⭐ 7.5Song of Avignon
⭐ 7.7Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October
⭐ 0Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas
⭐ 0Not in Our Name
⭐ 0Notes on an American Film Director at Work
⭐ 5.75The Song of Central Park
⭐ 0Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
⭐ 6.958Tapes
⭐ 0Postcard from America
⭐ 03.11 A Sense of Home
⭐ 6.53 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
⭐ 0Elegy for J.M.
⭐ 0Axiom of Choice
⭐ 0Jonas Towards Broadway
⭐ 0Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
⭐ 0Tiny Tim: King for a Day
⭐ 6.1Cinématon n°1590 : Jonas Mekas
⭐ 0Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
⭐ 0EXPRMNTL
⭐ 0The Sin of Jesus
⭐ 4.8The Invisible Father
⭐ 0Sunday December 30, 2007
⭐ 0Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
⭐ 7.4Notes in Lifestyle Margins
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