Jonas Mekas
Birthday
1922/12/24
Day of death
2019/01/23 (96 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Also know as
요나스 메카스, 乔纳斯·梅卡斯
Biography
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 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 brie...Read more
Acting
(1998) My Country is Cinema
as Self
(2019) Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
as Self
(2021) The Velvet Underground
as Self
(2022) Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
as Self
(2022) Notes for a Déjà vu
as ---
(2019) Cinema and Sanctuary
as Self
(1981) Strong Medicine
as ---
(1984) Persistence of Vision
as Himself
(2015) All About Bolex
as ---
(2015) A Report from Venice
as ---
(2023) Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
as Self (archive footage)
(2021) Back from New York
as Himself
(1996) Michael Snow Up Close
as Himself
(2009) The Signing
as ---
(2006) Anger Me
as Himself
(2010) Lavender
as Self
(2014) My Birthday
as ---
(1985) Home Movies 1971-81
as ---
(1992) Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
as ---
(2000) As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Narrator (voice)
(2012) Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
as Jonas Mekas
(1997) A Poet from the Lower East Side
as Self
(1989) Belladonna
as ---
(2002) Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
as Himself
(2014) River of Fundament
as Wake Guest
(2022) Vertigo
as ---
(1966) Galaxie
as Self
(1991) Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas
as Himself
(2022) Jonas Mekas Anthology
as Jonas Mekas
(2022) Fragments of Paradise
as Self (archive footage)
(1978) Notes for Jerome
as Self
(2022) Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
as ---
The Lamb
as Self
(1980) J. Mekas
as Self
(1970) Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
as ---
(2011) Guest
as Self
Viva Jonas!
as Himself
(2008) Doc
as Himself
(1991) Just Visiting This Planet
as ---
(1968) Jonas
as Himself
(2012) Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Himself
(2009) The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
as Self
(1978) Four Shadows
as ---
(1962) Diane the Zebra Woman
as ---
(2016) On the Holy Spirit
as ---
(2016) I Had Nowhere to Go
as Himself
(2002) In the Mirror of Maya Deren
as Himself
(2012) Reminiscences from Germany
as Himself
(1967) The Song of Avila
as Narrator
(1986) He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
(1990) Step Across the Border
as Butterfly Wing
(1997) Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
(2005) The Definition of Insanity
as ---
(2017) I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
as Self
(1981) The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
as ---
(1966) The Love Merchant
as Lounge Patron
(1996) Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as Self
(2006) Notes on Marie Menken
as Himself
(1972) Going Home
as Himself
(2007) Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
as Self
(2006) Salvador Dalí at Work
as Self
(1980) No. 18: Mahagonny
as Self
(1965) Jonas in the Brig
as Himself
(1968) Underground New York
as Self
(1979) ORG
as Self (archive footage)
(1980) Self-Portrait
as Himself
(2007) Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
as Self
(2013) My Conversations on Film
as Himself
(2006) Meet The Kuchar Brothers
as ---
(1994) Jonas in the Desert
as Self
(2011) Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself
(1974) ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
as ---
(1969) Filmmakers
as Himself
(1996) Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
as Himself
(1971) Journey to Lithuania
as Himself
(1999) Laboratorium Anthology
as Himself
(1986) Invocation: Maya Deren
as Himself
(2009) It Came from Kuchar
as Self (archive footage)
(2010) Visionaries
as Himself
(1965) Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
as Himself
(2010) New York Conversations
as ---
(2018) George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
as Self
(1989) Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
as Self
(2013) What Is Cinema?
as Self
(2008) Question a Day
as ---
(1999) Letter to John from Jonas
as ---
(2000) Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
as Himself
(2010) Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
as himself
(2019) Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
as ---
(2018) Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
as ---
(1967) Poem Posters
as Self
(2005) Excavating Taylor Mead
as Self
(2004) A Letter from Greenpoint
as Mekas
(1970) A Matter of Baobab
as ---
(2019) Makeshift (for Mekas)
as ---
(2001) TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penny Arcade June 25, 2001
as ---
(2019) Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
as Self
(2019) Self Discovery for Social Survival
as Narrator (voice)
(2018) Nitsch
as ---
(1965) Dirt
as ---
(2015) A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
as Self
(2009) Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
as Himself
(1992) Award
as Himself
(1965) Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
(1995) Nico Icon
as Himself
(1990) Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
as Self
(2006) Who Gets to Call It Art?
as Self
(2019) Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
as ---
(2011) My Mars Bar Movie
as himself
(1972) Imagine
as Self
(1978) Cinématon
as N°1590
(2008) Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
as ---
(1979) Paradise Not Yet Lost
as Himself
(2018) Beyond the Bolex
as Self
(2007) 365 Day Project
as Himself
(1965) Empire
as Self (uncredited)
(2013) Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
(1976) Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
(2011) Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
as ---
(1998) Song of Avignon
as Self
(1991) Quartet Number One
as ---
(1996) Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October
as Himself
![Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw300%2F5yEUYxLQWc71aL7OGrhSnpslsQO.jpg&w=3840&q=75 "Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas")
(1966) Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas
as himself
(2003) Not in Our Name
as himself
(2008) Notes on an American Film Director at Work
as Self
(2006) The Song of Central Park
as Himself (voice)
(2011) Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
as Himself
(2020) Tapes
as ---
(1975) Postcard from America
as ---
(2011) 3.11 A Sense of Home
as Himself (voice) (segment "Mt. Ventoux")
(2019) Elegy for J.M.
as ---
(2019) Jonas Towards Broadway
as ---
(2019) 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
as ---
(2003) Axiom of Choice
as ---
(2016) Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
as Self
(2020) Tiny Tim: King for a Day
as Himself
Cinématon n°1590 : Jonas Mekas
as ---
(1986) Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
as Self
(2006) Salvador Dali, Happenings
as ---
(2016) EXPRMNTL
as himself
(1961) The Sin of Jesus
as ---
(2021) The Invisible Father
as Self (archive footage)
(2007) Sunday December 30, 2007
as Self
(2013) Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as self
(2004) Kulturplatz
as Self