Jonas Mekas
Born: 1922-12-24
Jonas Mekas, born in 1922 in the Lithuanian village of Semeniškiai, emerged as a pivotal figure in avant-garde cinema. Following his harrowing experience as a forced laborer under the Nazis in Elmshorn, Germany, and subsequent studies in philosophy at the University of Mainz, Mekas immigrated to Ne...
Movies
What Is Cinema?
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Lost, Lost, Lost
Fragments of Paradise
Notes for Jerome
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
The Velvet Underground
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Beyond the Bolex
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man