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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 ...
- "As I Was Moving Ahead," Representing Lithuania at The 51st Edition of The Venice Biennale
"A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends"...
- Diary
Jonas Mekas and Friends In Concert – Berlin – July 7, 2018....
- "As I Was Moving Ahead," Representing Lithuania at The 51st Edition of The Venice Biennale
In 1954, Mekas and his brother Adolfas founded the journal Film Culture, and in 1958 he began writing his "Movie Journal" column for The Village Voice.In 1962, he co-founded The Film-Makers' Cooperative, and in 1964 the Filmmakers' Cinematheque, which eventually became Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde film.
Jan 23, 2019 · 23 January 2019. Jonas Mekas. Features. 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 ...
Dec 23, 2017 · In Reels 3 and 4, the refuge of sameness, commiseration, and impotent nostalgia that pervades the first two reels gives way to inspiration, liberation, and activism, evolving from the interiorization of grief (a loneliness that is reflected in Mekas’s descriptions of his many long walks during his earliest days in New York) to the exteriorization of social commitment and action.
The revelation of Jonas Mekas’s Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania in 1972 – particularly in contrast to his Guns of the Trees, which was made a dozen years earlier – was the unexpected seriousness, candour, precision and even reticence of a voice that had previously been identified largely by its shrillness and stridency, in cinema as well as in the pages of Film Culture and the ...
Jonas Mekas: Towards a spontaneous cinema. Jonas Mekas is editor of the American magazine Film Culture. This article is a report from the inside, as it were, on new trends in the non-Hollywood American cinema. Republished online in tribute to Jonas Mekas, 24 December 1922–23 January 2019. from the Summer and Autumn 1959 double issue of Sight ...
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Jonas Mekas said that if he lived to be 100 years old, he would go to the Himalayas, and everyone believed he would actually go. Unfortunately, he died in 2019 at the age of 96. But in the tradition of the expansive retrospectives that were held on his 70th, 80th and 90th birthdays, his spirit and art are being celebrated across the world to ...
