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Jonas Mekas (1922-2019), Lithuanian-born poet, philosopher and 'the godfather of American avant-garde cinema', has made hundreds of films and set up the Anth...
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Jun 13, 2017 · Walden. Another film that is considered to be a classic in the world of Avant-garde cinema is Walden. This film is a mix of notes, diaries, and sketches by Mekas. This film truly showcased the poetic side of Mekas which is true throughout all of his films. If you are looking for a starting point this film is great for it.
Director. Cinematographer. Actor. “In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!”.
Biography. Jonas Mekas (24 12 1922 – 23 01 2019) 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 ...
Feb 8, 2005 · Endnotes. Mekas, Movie Journal: The Rise of a New American Cinema, 1959–1971, Macmillan, New York, 1972, p. ix. Mekas, p. ix. Mekas, p. 236 (April 21, 1966) Mekas compiled a complete list of screenings and programs he organised in “Showcases I Ran in the Sixties” in David E. James (ed.), To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground, Princeton University Press, Princeton ...
Jonas Mekas is known primarily as a filmmaker; not only a filmmaker but a very inventive and innovative creator of a new style of filmmaking: the film diary. However, during his most active and productive years, he was not generally known as a filmmaker at all. His claim to fame throughout the 1960s and 70s was as editor-in-chief of the first ...
