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Jonas Mekas

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

24/12/1922

Day of Death

23/01/2019
(97) years old

Place of Birth

Semeniškiai, Lithuania

Jonas Mekas

Biography

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 broug... Read More

Known For

The Velvet Underground

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

Notes for a Déjà vu

Cinema and Sanctuary

Strong Medicine

Persistence of Vision

All About Bolex

A Report from Venice

Filmography

Cast

2023

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

as Self (archive footage)

2022

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film A...

2022

Jonas Mekas Anthology

as Jonas Mekas

2022

Fragments of Paradise

as Self (archive footage)

2022

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

as Self

2022

Vertigo

2022

Notes for a Déjà vu

2021

Back from New York

as Himself

2021

The Velvet Underground

as Self

2021

The Invisible Father

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Tapes

2020

Tiny Tim: King for a Day

as Himself

2019

Elegy for J.M.

2019

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

2019

Cinema and Sanctuary

as Self

2019

Self Discovery for Social Survival

as Narrator (voice)

2019

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

as Self

2019

Makeshift (for Mekas)

2019

Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/versi...

as Self

2019

Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas

2019

3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)

2019

Jonas Towards Broadway

2018

Beyond the Bolex

as Self

2018

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Under...

2018

George: The Story of George Maciunas and...

as Self

2018

Nitsch

2016

EXPRMNTL

as himself

2016

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas

as Self

2015

A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol

as Self

2015

Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an Ameri...

2015

A Report from Venice

2015

All About Bolex

2014

My Birthday

2014

River of Fundament

as Wake Guest

2013

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Self

2013

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as self

2013

What Is Cinema?

as Self

2012

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man

as Jonas Mekas

2011

My Mars Bar Movie

as himself

2011

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

as Himself (voice) (segment "Mt. Ventoux")

2011

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas -...

as Himself

2011

Guest

as Self

2011

Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

2010

Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

as himself

2010

New York Conversations

2010

Lavender

as Self

2010

Visionaries

as Himself

2009

Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

as Himself

2009

It Came from Kuchar

as Self (archive footage)

2009

The Signing

2008

Doc

as Himself

2008

Question a Day

2008

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside t...

2008

Notes on an American Film Director at Wo...

as Self

2007

365 Day Project

as Self

2007

Sunday December 30, 2007

as Self

2006

The Song of Central Park

as Himself (voice)

2006

Anger Me

as Himself

2006

Who Gets to Call It Art?

as Self

2006

Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Ma...

as Self

2005

Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol

2005

Excavating Taylor Mead

as Self

2004

A Letter from Greenpoint

as Mekas

2003

Not in Our Name

as himself

2003

Axiom of Choice

as Self

2002

Jonas Keeps Shooting Around

as Himself

2002

Notes in Lifestyle Margins

2001

TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penn...

2000

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Sa...

as Narrator (voice)

2000

Requiem for a Manual Typewriter

as Himself

1999

Letter to John from Jonas

1998

Song of Avignon

as Self

1998

My Country is Cinema

as Self

1997

A Poet from the Lower East Side

as Self

1996

Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October

as Himself

1996

Michael Snow Up Close

as Himself

1995

Nico Icon

as Self

1993

Jonas Mekas in Budapest

as Himself

1992

Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of ...

1992

Award

as Himself

1991

Quartet Number One

1991

Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas

as Himself

1990

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Wa...

as Self

1989

Belladonna

1989

Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for th...

as Self

1986

Invocation: Maya Deren

as Himself

1986

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert F...

as Self

1985

Home Movies 1971-81

1984

Persistence of Vision

as Self

1981

Strong Medicine

1980

J. Mekas

as Self

1979

Paradise Not Yet Lost

as Himself

1978

Cinématon

as N°1590

1978

Notes for Jerome

as Self

1976

Lost, Lost, Lost

as Self

1975

Postcard from America

1972

Imagine

as Self

1970

Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo

1970

A Matter of Baobab

1967

Poem Posters

as Self

1966

Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas

as himself

1966

Galaxie

as Self

2017

I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From th...

as Self

2016

On the Holy Spirit

2016

I Had Nowhere to Go

as Himself

2013

My Conversations on Film

as Himself

2012

Maya Deren, Take Zero

as Himself

2012

Reminiscences from Germany

as Himself

2011

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental...

as Himself

2009

The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the ...

as Self

2007

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlant...

as Self

2007

Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007

as Self

2006

Salvador Dalí at Work

as Self

2006

Notes on Marie Menken

as Self

2006

Meet The Kuchar Brothers

2005

The Definition of Insanity

2002

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

as Himself

1999

Laboratorium Anthology

as Himself

1997

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on E...

as Self

1996

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

as Self

1996

Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old

as Himself

1994

Jonas in the Desert

as Self

1991

Just Visiting This Planet

1990

Step Across the Border

as Butterfly Wing

1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Secon...

as Self (archive footage)

1981

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

1980

No. 18: Mahagonny

as Self

1980

Self-Portrait

as Himself

1979

ORG

as Self (archive footage)

1978

Four Shadows

1974

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to D...

1972

Going Home

as Himself

1971

Journey to Lithuania

as Himself

1969

Filmmakers

as Himself

1968

Jonas

as Himself

1968

Underground New York

as Self

1967

The Song of Avila

as Narrator

1966

The Love Merchant

as Lounge Patron

1965

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

as Self

1965

Dirt

1965

Jonas in the Brig

as Himself

1965

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

as Self

1965

Empire

as Self (uncredited)

1962

Diane the Zebra Woman

1961

The Sin of Jesus

Crew

2017

I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From th...

as Director

2015

A Report from Venice

as Director

2015

Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham

as Director

2015

My Bolexes

as Director

2015

My Bolexes

as Cinematography

2015

All About Bolex

as Director

2015

All About Bolex

as Camera Operator

2014

My Birthday

as Director

2014

Destruction of the Berlin Wall

as Director

2013

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Director

2013

The Sixties Quartet

as Director

2012

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man

as Director

2012

20 Little Films

as Director

2012

Reminiscences from Germany

as Director

2011

Sleepless Nights Stories

as Director

2011

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

as Director

2011

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas -...

as Director

2011

First Class Flight

as Director

2010

WTC Haikus

as Director

2009

Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR

as Director

2008

Notes on an American Film Director at Wo...

as Director

2007

Friday March 16, 2007

as Director

2007

Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007

as Director

2007

Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo)...

as Director

2007

Monday Jan. 1, 2007

as Director

2006

Salvador Dalí at Work

as Director

2006

A Visit to Stan Brakhage

as Director

2006

Velvet Underground's First Public Appear...

as Director

2006

To Barbara Rubin with Love

as Director

2006

A Visit to Stan Brakhage

as Director

2006

Dedication to Matsuo Basho

as Director

2006

A Visit to Timothy Leary

as Director

2006

John & Yoko Bed-In

as Director

2006

Bibi Hansen

as Director

2006

Carl Dreyer

as Director

2006

Poets at the Living Theater

as Director

2006

Andy at Work

as Director

2006

Warhol and Maciunas

as Director

2006

Robert Frank Films

as Director

2004

A Letter from Greenpoint

as Director

2003

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

as Director

2002

Three Friends

as Director

2000

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Sa...

as Director

2000

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Sa...

as Writer

2000

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Sa...

as Cinematography

2000

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Sa...

as Editor

2000

Silence, Please

as Director

2000

Silence, Please

as Cinematography

2000

Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his M...

as Director

1999

This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An U...

as Director

1999

This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An U...

as Editor

1999

This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An U...

as Producer

1998

Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives F...

as Director

1998

Song of Avignon

as Director

1998

Song of Avignon

as Writer

1997

Nam June Paik's Piano Piece

as Director

1997

Happy Birthday to John

as Director

1997

Birth of a Nation

as Director

1997

Birth of a Nation

as Writer

1997

Birth of a Nation

as Editor

1997

Birth of a Nation

as Cinematography

1997

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on E...

as Director

1997

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on E...

as Editor

1997

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on E...

as Cinematography

1996

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

as Director

1996

Celebrate Cinema 101

as Director

1995

Imperfect Three-Image Films

as Director

1992

Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of ...

as Director

1991

Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Phi...

as Director

1991

Quartet Number One

as Director

1990

A Walk

as Director

1990

A Walk

as Camera Operator

1990

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Fri...

as Director

1990

Mob of Angels: Baptism

as Director

1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Secon...

as Director

1983

Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio

as Director

1983

Street Songs

as Director

1981

Travel Songs

as Director

1980

Self-Portrait

as Director

1980

Robert Haller's Wedding

as Director

1979

Paradise Not Yet Lost

as Director

1978

Notes for Jerome

as Director

1978

Notes for Jerome

as Cinematography

1978

In Between

as Director

1976

Lost, Lost, Lost

as Director

1969

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

as Director

1967

Notes on the Circus

as Director

1967

Hare Krishna

as Director

1966

Report from Millbrook

as Director

1966

Cassis

as Director of Photography

1966

Cassis

as Editor

1966

Cassis

as Director

1965

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

as Director

1964

The Brig

as Director

1962

Senseless

as Writer

1961

Guns of the Trees

as Director

1961

Guns of the Trees

as Writer

2017

From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac

as Director

2016

On the Holy Spirit

as Director

2013

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Editor

2013

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Writer

2013

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Cinematography

2010

42 One Dream Rush

as Director

2010

Lavender

as Director of Photography

2010

Lavender

as Director

2010

WTC Haikus

as Editor

2010

WTC Haikus

as Director of Photography

2010

WTC Haikus

as Producer

2009

I Leave Chelsea Hotel

as Director

2007

365 Day Project

as Director

2006

Salvador Dalí at Work

as Writer

2006

Cinémathèque Française

as Director

2006

Brakhage Crosses Central Park

as Cinematography

2006

Brakhage Crosses Central Park

as Writer

2006

Brakhage Crosses Central Park

as Director

2006

Brakhage Crosses Central Park

as Editor

2006

The Destruction Quartet

as Director

2004

A Letter from Greenpoint

as Writer

2001

Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten

as Director

2000

Requiem for a Manual Typewriter

as Director

1999

Letter to John from Jonas

as Director

1999

Laboratorium Anthology

as Director

1996

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

as Cinematography

1996

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

as Writer

1996

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

as Editor

1996

Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old

as Director

1993

Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress

as Director

1991

Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Phi...

as Editor

1990

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Fri...

as Cinematography

1990

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Fri...

as Editor

1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Secon...

as Cinematography

1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Secon...

as Editor

1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Secon...

as Writer

1983

Erick Hawkins: Excerpts from "Here and N...

as Director

1981

The Song of Stockholm

as Director

1976

Lost, Lost, Lost

as Writer

1976

Lost, Lost, Lost

as Cinematography

1976

Lost, Lost, Lost

as Editor

1967

The Song of Italy

as Director

1967

The Song of Assisi

as Director

1967

For Life, Against the War

as Director

1966

The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's C...

as Camera Operator

1965

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

as Editor

1965

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

as Director of Photography

1965

Film Magazine of the Arts

as Cinematography

1965

Film Magazine of the Arts

as Editor

1964

The Brig

as Cinematography

1961

Guns of the Trees

as Editor

1961

Guns of the Trees

as Cinematography

2020

Tapes

as Director

2019

Requiem

as Director

2019

Self Discovery for Social Survival

as Writer

2017

From the diaries of a cinema maniac

as Director

2016

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: L...

as Director

2014

Halloween 1990

as Director

2012

Happy Easter Ride

as Director

2011

Mt. Ventoux

as Director

2011

My Paris Movie

as Director

2011

My Mars Bar Movie

as Director

2011

Keep Singing

as Director

2011

Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

as Director

2010

Orchard Street

as Director

2010

A Daydream

as Director

2008

Notes on an American Film Director at Wo...

as Director of Photography

2007

Sunday December 30, 2007

as Director

2007

Friday May 4, 2007: John Zorn – Cobra Pa...

as Director

2007

Monday April 16, 2007

as Director

2006

Salvador Dalí at Work

as Cinematography

2006

Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dal...

as Director

2006

The Song of Central Park

as Director

2006

Monks of Cinema

as Director

2006

To John With Love

as Director

2006

John & Yoko Bed-In

as Director

2005

Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch

as Director

2005

Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch

as Editor

2005

Notes on Utopia

as Director

2004

A Letter from Greenpoint

as Creator

2003

A Visit To Hans Richter

as Editor

2003

A Visit To Hans Richter

as Director

2001

TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penn...

as Director

2001

Wien & Mozart

as Director

1999

A Few Notes on Andy's Factory

as Director

1999

This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An U...

as Writer

2002

Mysteries

as Director

2001

Elvis

as Director

1997

Letters from Nowhere

as Writer

1997

Letters from Nowhere

as Director

1997

Letters from Nowhere

as Editor

1996

Song of The Salamander

as Director

1995

On My Way to Fujiyama I met..

as Director of Photography

1995

On My Way to Fujiyama I met..

as Director

1995

Memories of Frankenstein

as Director

1992

The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Rega...

as Director

1972

Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden

as Director

1972

Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden

as Camera Operator

1972

Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden

as Writer

1970

The Song of Moscow

as Director

1969

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

as Cinematography

1967

The Italian Notebook

as Director

1967

The Song of Avila

as Director

1967

Notes on the Circus

as Cinematography

1967

Notes on the Circus

as Editor

1966

European Diaries

as Sound Designer

1965

Film Magazine of the Arts

as Director

1965

Empire

as Cinematography

1964

The Brig

as Director of Photography

1963

Hallelujah the Hills

as Assistant Director