
Born
December 24, 1922
Died
January 23, 2019
Place of Birth
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
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, Brookly…

A Mixtape for Stom
2025

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022

Jonas Mekas Anthology
2022

Fragments of Paradise
2022

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022

Vertigo
2022

Notes for a Déjà vu
2022

Back from New York
2021

The Velvet Underground
2021

9/11: Life Under Attack
2021

The Invisible Father
2021

Tapes
2020

Tiny Tim: King for a Day
2020

Elegy for J.M.
2019

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019

Cinema and Sanctuary
2019

Self Discovery for Social Survival
2019

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019

Makeshift (for Mekas)
2019
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
2019

Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
2019
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Jonas Towards Broadway
2019

Beyond the Bolex
2018

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
2018

Nitsch
2018

I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017

On the Holy Spirit
2016

EXPRMNTL
2016

I Had Nowhere to Go
2016

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016

Últimas correspondencias
2016

Filmstudio, mon amour
2015

A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015

Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2015

A Report from Venice
2015

All About Bolex
2015

My Birthday
2014

River of Fundament
2014

My Conversations on Film
2013
Jonas in the Jungle
2013

What Is Cinema?
2013

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012

Reminiscences from Germany
2012

My Mars Bar Movie
2011

3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011

Guest
2011

Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
2010

New York Conversations
2010

Lavender
2010

Visionaries
2010

Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009

It Came from Kuchar
2009

The Signing
2009
The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
2009

Doc
2008

Question a Day
2008

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008

Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008

365 Day Project
2007

Sunday December 30, 2007
2007

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007

Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
2007

The Song of Central Park
2006

Anger Me
2006
Notes on Marie Menken
2006

Who Gets to Call It Art?
2006

Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
2006

The Definition of Insanity
2005

Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
2005

Excavating Taylor Mead
2005
A Letter from Greenpoint
2004
Not in Our Name
2003

Axiom of Choice
2003

Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
2002

In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002

Notes in Lifestyle Margins
2002

A Letter to Penny Arcade
2001

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
2000
Letter to John from Jonas
1999
Laboratorium Anthology
1999

Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97
1998

Song of Avignon
1998
My Country is Cinema
1998

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997

A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997

Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October
1996

Michael Snow Up Close
1996

Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
1996

Nico Icon
1995

Jonas in the Desert
1994

Jonas Mekas in Budapest
1993
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
1992

Award
1992
Just Visiting This Planet
1991

Quartet Number One
1991
Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas
1991

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990

Step Across the Border
1990

Belladonna
1989

Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
1989

Invocation: Maya Deren
1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986

Home Movies 1971-81
1985

Persistence of Vision
1984

Strong Medicine
1981

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1981
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980

Self-Portrait
1980

J. Mekas
1980

ORG
1979
Paradise Not Yet Lost
1979

Cinématon
1978

Four Shadows
1978

Notes for Jerome
1978

Lost, Lost, Lost
1976

Postcard from America
1975

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974

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

Imagine
1972

Going Home
1972

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971
1971

Journey to Lithuania
1971

Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
1970

Filmmakers
1969

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968

A Matter of Baobab
1968
Jonas
1968

Underground New York
1968

The Song of Avila
1967

Poem Posters
1967
![Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/5yEUYxLQWc71aL7OGrhSnpslsQO.jpg)
Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas
1966

Galaxie
1966
The Love Merchant
1966

Shooting Guns
1966

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
Dirt
1965

Jonas in the Brig
1965

Empire
1965
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964

Salvador Dalí at Work
1964
Diane the Zebra Woman
1962
The Sin of Jesus
1961
The Lamb

Viva Jonas!
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