Jonas Mekas

Born December 24, 1922· Semeniškiai, Lithuania

† Died January 23, 2019

70Roles★ 6.6Average rating

Jonas Mekas (24 December 1922 - 23 January 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 Williamsb… Read more

Known for

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000River of Fundament2014Step Across the Border1990Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man2012

Filmography

YearRating

★ 7.8

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000

Narrator (voice)

★ 8

Step Across the Border1990

Butterfly Wing

★ 7.8

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen1974

★ 10

Filmstudio, mon amour2015

Sé stesso

★ 9.5

The Definition of Insanity2005

Dirt1965

★ 7.7

Dirt1965

Diane the Zebra Woman1962

★ 9

Diane the Zebra Woman1962

★ 7.5

Quartet Number One1991

★ 8

Belladonna1989

★ 6.7

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man2012

Jonas Mekas

★ 7

Four Shadows1978

★ 6

Makeshift (for Mekas)2019

★ 6

My Birthday2014

★ 6

A Letter to Penny Arcade2001

★ 6.4

The Song of Avila1967

Narrator

★ 5

Postcard from America1975

★ 6.3

Strong Medicine1981

★ 6.3

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man1981

Just Visiting This Planet1991

★ 5

Just Visiting This Planet1991

★ 6.2

Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)1992

★ 5.4

Self Discovery for Social Survival2019

Narrator (voice)

The Sin of Jesus1961

★ 5.6

The Sin of Jesus1961

★ 6

River of Fundament2014

Wake Guest

★ 4.9

Cinématon1978

N°1590

★ 4.9

The Love Merchant1966

Lounge Patron

★ 2.9

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory2008

A Mixtape for Stom2025

Notes for a Déjà vu2022

Vertigo2022

Jonas Mekas Anthology2022

Jonas Mekas

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages2022

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages2022

Tapes2020

Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas2019

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party2019

3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)2019

3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)2019

Elegy for J.M.2019

Jonas Towards Broadway2019

Jonas Towards Broadway2019

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground2018

Nitsch2018

On the Holy Spirit2016

Memories of Jerome Hiler2016

All About Bolex2015

A Report from Venice2015

Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet2015

Reconnecting with an Old Friend2015

Re: Maciunas and Fluxus2011

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman2011

My Paris Movie2011

New York Conversations2010

The Signing2009

Question a Day2008

Meet The Kuchar Brothers2006

Jonas' Independence Speech at the Anniversary of the Filmmaker's Cooperative2006

Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC2006

End of the Millennium Espresso2006

Imperfect Film2006

Imperfect Film2006

Taping for As I was Moving Ahead…2006

Kreutzer Sonata2006

Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol2005

A Letter from Greenpoint2004

A Letter from Greenpoint2004

Mekas

Notes in Lifestyle Margins2002

Letter to John from Jonas1999

Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/971998

Cinématon n°1590 : Jonas Mekas1992

Home Movies 1971-811985

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”1973

Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo1970

A Matter of Baobab1968

Shooting Guns1966

Fragments of an Unfinished Biography of Jackie & Lee

Fragments of an Unfinished Biography of Jackie & Lee-

Also behind the camera

The films and series they directed.

Full directing filmography

★ 7.8

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000

★ 7.5

Song of Avignon1998

★ 6.6

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections1990

★ 7.1

Lost, Lost, Lost1976

★ 7

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania1972

★ 7.3

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968