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Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) by Jonas Mekas, Clip: The early years in New York. (Reels 1 and 2) The Image: I think I love the title best (!) but I also absolutely love the mysterious, blurry amateur...
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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.
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Jonas Mekas (/ ˈmiːkɑːs /; [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] Mekas was active in New York City ...
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.
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.
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…
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Feb 8, 2005 · Midwife of the New York Independent Cinema. In the late 1940s, Jonas Mekas and his brother Adolfas were living in a displaced persons camp in Wisenbaden, Germany, following the end of the Second World War.
