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Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (12-24-1922 - 1-23-2019) was born 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 settled down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Two months after his arrival in New York he borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. He soon got deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement. In 1954, together with his brother, he started Film Culture magazine, which soon became the most important film publication in the US. In 1958 he began his legendary Movie Journal column in the Village Voice. In 1962 he founded the Film-Makers' Cooperative, and in 1964 the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema, and a screening venue. During all this time he continued writing poetry and making films. To this date he has published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, which have been translated into over a dozen languages. His Lithuanian poetry is now part of Lithuanian classic literature and his films can be found in leading museums around the world. He is largely credited for developing the diaristic forms of cinema. Mekas has also been active as an academic, teaching at the New School for Social Research, the International Center for Photography, Cooper Union, New York University, and MIT. Mekas' film The Brig was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. Other films include Walden (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), Lost Lost Lost (1975), Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), As I was Moving Ahead I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), Letter from Greenpoint (2005), Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) and Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man. In 2007, he completed a series of 365 short films released on the internet -- one film every day -- and since then has continued to share new work on his website. Since 2000, Mekas has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Moderna Museet (Stockholm), PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA, Documenta of Kassel, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Venice Biennale.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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March 24th, 2023 | Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV | Self (archive footage) | 6.9 | |
September 21st, 2022 | Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages | TBD | TBD | |
September 3rd, 2022 | Jonas Mekas Anthology | Jonas Mekas | TBD | |
August 31st, 2022 | Fragments of Paradise | Self (archive footage) | 6.5 | |
August 12th, 2022 | Film: The Living Record of Our Memory | Self | 7.8 | |
July 13th, 2022 | Vertigo | TBD | TBD | |
February 21st, 2022 | Notes for a Déjà vu | TBD | TBD | |
October 25th, 2021 | Back from New York | Himself | TBD | |
October 15th, 2021 | The Velvet Underground | Self | 6.8 | |
June 20th, 2019 | Cinema and Sanctuary | Self | TBD | |
April 8th, 2019 | Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1 | Self | TBD | |
September 1st, 2017 | I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance | Self | 8 | |
October 22nd, 2016 | On the Holy Spirit | TBD | TBD | |
August 4th, 2016 | I Had Nowhere to Go | Himself | TBD | |
June 1st, 2015 | A Report from Venice | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 2015 | All About Bolex | TBD | TBD | |
December 23rd, 2014 | My Birthday | TBD | 6 | |
February 12th, 2014 | River of Fundament | Wake Guest | 5.9 | |
October 13th, 2013 | My Conversations on Film | Himself | 3.2 | |
December 1st, 2012 | Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man | Jonas Mekas | 6.5 | |
January 30th, 2012 | Maya Deren, Take Zero | Himself | 5 | |
January 1st, 2012 | Reminiscences from Germany | Himself | TBD | |
July 24th, 2011 | Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film | Himself | 6.8 | |
March 25th, 2011 | Guest | Self | 6 | |
June 1st, 2010 | Lavender | Self | TBD | |
January 1st, 2010 | Visionaries | Himself | 6 | |
September 22nd, 2009 | It Came from Kuchar | Self (archive footage) | 7.1 | |
January 1st, 2009 | The Signing | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 2009 | The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery' | Self | TBD | |
December 9th, 2008 | Doc | Himself | TBD | |
April 11th, 2007 | Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis | Self | 6.6 | |
January 9th, 2007 | Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007 | Self | TBD | |
October 23rd, 2006 | Anger Me | Himself | 8.8 | |
April 20th, 2006 | Notes on Marie Menken | Self | 5.4 | |
January 1st, 2006 | Meet The Kuchar Brothers | TBD | TBD | |
December 10th, 2005 | The Definition of Insanity | TBD | 9.5 | |
August 1st, 2002 | Jonas Keeps Shooting Around | Himself | 5 | |
March 15th, 2002 | In the Mirror of Maya Deren | Himself | 7.5 | |
November 5th, 2000 | As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty | Narrator (voice) | 7.6 | |
January 1st, 1999 | Laboratorium Anthology | Himself | TBD | |
January 1st, 1998 | My Country is Cinema | Self | TBD | |
July 3rd, 1997 | Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit | Self | 5.2 | |
January 1st, 1997 | A Poet from the Lower East Side | Self | 10 | |
January 1st, 1996 | Michael Snow Up Close | Himself | 6 | |
January 1st, 1996 | Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old | Himself | TBD | |
January 1st, 1994 | Jonas in the Desert | Self | 6.4 | |
December 31st, 1992 | Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus) | TBD | 6.2 | |
September 5th, 1991 | Just Visiting This Planet | TBD | 5 | |
January 1st, 1991 | Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas | Himself | TBD | |
May 18th, 1990 | Step Across the Border | Butterfly Wing | 8.1 | |
May 22nd, 1989 | Belladonna | TBD | 8 | |
April 24th, 1986 | Invocation: Maya Deren | Himself | 6.3 | |
February 22nd, 1986 | He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life | Self (archive footage) | 8.4 | |
January 1st, 1985 | Home Movies 1971-81 | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 1984 | Persistence of Vision | Self | TBD | |
November 25th, 1981 | Strong Medicine | TBD | 6.3 | |
August 1st, 1981 | The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man | TBD | 6.3 | |
September 13th, 1980 | No. 18: Mahagonny | Self | 6 | |
June 7th, 1980 | Self-Portrait | Himself | 9 | |
January 1st, 1980 | J. Mekas | Self | TBD | |
August 31st, 1979 | ORG | Self (archive footage) | 5.1 | |
October 3rd, 1978 | Four Shadows | TBD | 7 | |
July 3rd, 1978 | Notes for Jerome | Self | 7 | |
November 5th, 1974 | ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen | TBD | 7.8 | |
October 4th, 1972 | Going Home | Himself | 5.8 | |
August 2nd, 1972 | Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania | Self | 7.1 | |
January 1st, 1971 | Journey to Lithuania | Himself | 7 | |
January 1st, 1970 | Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 1969 | Filmmakers | Himself | TBD | |
September 3rd, 1966 | Galaxie | Self | 10 | |
TBD | The Lamb | Self | TBD | |
TBD | Viva Jonas! | Himself | TBD | |
September 20th, 2025 | A Mixtape for Stom | TBD | TBD | |
September 3rd, 2021 | 9/11: Life Under Attack | Self | 7.5 | |
March 19th, 2021 | The Invisible Father | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
September 14th, 2020 | Tapes | TBD | TBD | |
August 20th, 2020 | Tiny Tim: King for a Day | Himself | 6.1 | |
December 16th, 2019 | Elegy for J.M. | TBD | TBD | |
November 3rd, 2019 | Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party | TBD | TBD | |
June 15th, 2019 | Self Discovery for Social Survival | Narrator (voice) | 5.4 | |
June 5th, 2019 | Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film | Self | 7.2 | |
May 25th, 2019 | Makeshift (for Mekas) | TBD | 6 | |
January 31st, 2019 | Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 2019 | 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 2019 | Jonas Towards Broadway | TBD | TBD | |
November 8th, 2018 | Beyond the Bolex | Self | 7 | |
May 2nd, 2018 | Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground | TBD | TBD | |
February 21st, 2018 | George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus | Self | 7 | |
January 29th, 2018 | Nitsch | TBD | TBD | |
October 8th, 2016 | EXPRMNTL | himself | TBD | |
May 29th, 2016 | Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas | Self | TBD | |
January 1st, 2016 | Últimas correspondencias | Self | TBD | |
October 21st, 2015 | Filmstudio, mon amour | Sé stesso | 10 | |
August 25th, 2015 | A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol | Self | 5 | |
June 19th, 2015 | Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet | TBD | TBD | |
October 3rd, 2013 | Jonas in the Jungle | Self | TBD | |
September 6th, 2013 | What Is Cinema? | Self | 6.5 | |
October 6th, 2011 | My Mars Bar Movie | himself | TBD | |
September 11th, 2011 | 3.11 A Sense of Home Films | Himself (voice) (segment "Mt. Ventoux") | 6.5 | |
April 9th, 2011 | Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin | Himself | 7 | |
January 1st, 2011 | Re: Maciunas and Fluxus | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 2011 | Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman | TBD | TBD | |
October 14th, 2010 | Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas | himself | TBD | |
September 21st, 2010 | New York Conversations | TBD | TBD | |
December 31st, 2009 | Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days | Himself | 6.5 | |
January 1st, 2008 | Question a Day | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 2008 | Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory | TBD | 2.9 | |
January 1st, 2008 | Notes on an American Film Director at Work | Self | 5.6 | |
December 31st, 2007 | 365 Day Project | Self | 10 | |
December 30th, 2007 | Sunday December 30, 2007 | Self | TBD | |
November 11th, 2006 | The Song of Central Park | Himself (voice) | TBD | |
February 1st, 2006 | Who Gets to Call It Art? | Self | 6.9 | |
January 1st, 2006 | Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master | Self | TBD | |
November 25th, 2005 | Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol | TBD | TBD | |
October 8th, 2005 | Excavating Taylor Mead | Self | 7 | |
April 22nd, 2004 | A Letter from Greenpoint | Mekas | TBD | |
December 31st, 2003 | Not in Our Name | himself | TBD | |
January 1st, 2003 | Axiom of Choice | Self | TBD | |
March 11th, 2002 | Notes in Lifestyle Margins | TBD | TBD | |
June 23rd, 2001 | A Letter to Penny Arcade | TBD | 6 | |
February 9th, 2000 | Requiem for a Manual Typewriter | Himself | TBD | |
March 6th, 1999 | Letter to John from Jonas | TBD | TBD | |
October 8th, 1998 | Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97 | TBD | TBD | |
July 3rd, 1998 | Song of Avignon | Self | 7.4 | |
December 31st, 1996 | Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October | Himself | TBD | |
September 8th, 1995 | Nico Icon | Self | 7.9 | |
November 1st, 1993 | Jonas Mekas in Budapest | Himself | TBD | |
January 1st, 1992 | Award | Himself | 9 | |
July 3rd, 1991 | Quartet Number One | TBD | 7.5 | |
July 18th, 1990 | Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol | Self | 7.3 | |
January 1st, 1989 | Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties | Self | 8 | |
January 1st, 1986 | Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank | Self | TBD | |
July 3rd, 1979 | Paradise Not Yet Lost | Himself | 10 | |
December 20th, 1978 | Cinématon | N°1590 | 4.9 | |
September 14th, 1976 | Lost, Lost, Lost | Self | 7.1 | |
January 1st, 1975 | Postcard from America | TBD | 5 | |
March 26th, 1973 | Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” | TBD | TBD | |
December 23rd, 1972 | Imagine | Self | 7 | |
April 15th, 1971 | Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971 | Self | TBD | |
March 1st, 1968 | Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | Self | 7.2 | |
December 31st, 1966 | Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas | himself | TBD | |
TBD | Cinématon n°1590 : Jonas Mekas | TBD | TBD | |
March 1st, 1968 | Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | self | 7.2 | |
January 12th, 1968 | A Matter of Baobab | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 1968 | Jonas | Himself | TBD | |
January 1st, 1968 | Underground New York | Self | TBD | |
December 31st, 1967 | The Song of Avila | Narrator | 6.4 | |
May 19th, 1967 | Poem Posters | Self | TBD | |
January 1st, 1966 | The Love Merchant | Lounge Patron | 4.9 | |
January 1st, 1966 | Shooting Guns | TBD | TBD | |
November 28th, 1965 | Andy Warhol Screen Tests | Self | 8 | |
September 25th, 1965 | Dirt | TBD | 7.7 | |
September 10th, 1965 | Jonas in the Brig | Himself | TBD | |
March 6th, 1965 | Empire | Self (uncredited) | 4.3 | |
December 7th, 1964 | Award Presentation to Andy Warhol | Self | 7.5 | |
April 18th, 1964 | Salvador Dalí at Work | Self | 5 | |
January 1st, 1962 | Diane the Zebra Woman | TBD | 9 | |
December 10th, 1961 | The Sin of Jesus | TBD | 5.6 | |
TBD | The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus | Self | 7 |