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Aug 21, 2019 · David Sterritt, Editor-in-Chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Contributing Writer at Cineaste, wrote about Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives many times during almost 40 years as film critic and cultural correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
- David Sterritt
- 2019
Jonas Mekas (/ ˈ m iː k ɑː s /; [1] Lithuanian: [ˈjonɐs ˈmækɐs]; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". [2] Mekas's work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide. [3]
Diaries, Notes & Sketches – Volume 1, Reels 1-6: Lost Lost Lost review: “an unfolding account of the early American underground” In tribute to Jonas Mekas, who died 23 January 2019, we republish Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1977 review of Mekas’s breakthrough diary film.
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.
Jonas Mekas, Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland, 1971/1993, edited 2012, Germany, 25 min. A non-chronological presentation of the filmmaker’s time in German forced labour camps and displaced person camps…
Jan 23, 2019 · Jonas Mekas, the Lithuanian-born filmmaker and archivist who became known as the godfather of avant-garde cinema, has died aged 96. Arriving in New York as an émigré after the Second World War, Mekas would found the influential film journal Film Culture, the Film-Maker’s Co-operative and the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which would become ...
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Jun 16, 2016 · A pioneer of the diary film, Mekas documented his return to his homeland 27 years after leaving in Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-72), part of Art Basel’s film programme.
