Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (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". Mekas' work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide. Mekas was active in New York City, where he co-founded Anthology Film Archives, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and the journal Film Culture. He was also the first film critic for The Village Voice. In the 1960s, Mekas launched anti-censorship campaigns in defense of the LGBTQ-themed films of Jean Genet and Jack Smith, garnering support from cultural figures including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag. Mekas mentored and supported many prominent American artists and filmmakers, including Ken Jacobs, Peter Bogdanovich, Chantal Akerman, Richard Foreman, John Waters, Barbara Rubin, Yoko Ono, an...
Filmography
Titles and credit roles
Director credits
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Requiem
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
Correspondence Jonas Mekas - J.L Guerin
Sleepless Nights Stories- FIFirst Class Flight
42 One Dream Rush- LILithuania and the Collapse of the USSR
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
365 Day Project
Warhol and Maciunas
To John With Love
John & Yoko Bed-In
A Letter from Greenpoint
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Happy Birthday to John
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Birth of a Nation
Paradise Not Yet Lost
Notes for Jerome
In Between
Lost, Lost, Lost
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
The Brig
Guns of the Trees
Actor credits
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Fragments of Paradise
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
Self Discovery for Social Survival
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
Beyond the Bolex
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
Exprmntl
I Had Nowhere to Go
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film- MYMy Paris Movie
- DIDie Ameise der Kunst
Visionaries
Guest
Anger Me
Notes on Marie Menken
Who Gets to Call It Art?
The Definition of Insanity
Excavating Taylor Mead
In the Mirror of Maya Deren- AMAmerican Magus
- JOJonas at the Ocean
A Poet from the Lower East Side
Nico Icon- THThe Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
Just Visiting This Planet
Step Across the Border
Invocation: Maya Deren
No. 18: Mahagonny
Four Shadows
Imagine
Going Home
Up Your Legs Forever
Underground New York
Galaxie
The Love Merchant
Empire
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man- THThe Sin of Jesus
