Film theoretician, avant-garde filmmaker, and staunch supporter of alternative cinema, Jonas Mekas' best-known film remains The Brig (1964). Mekas was born in Semeniskiai, Lithuania. He spent time in a concentration camp during WWII. After the war, he wandered about Europe until 1950, when he moved to the U.S. In addition to making his own films, Mekas has worked as a film critic for The Village Voice, been an editor of Film Culture, and organized the Film Makers Cooperative. His brother, Adolfas, is also an avant-garde filmmaker.
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My Mars Bar Movie
Director |
2011 | |||
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Sleepless Nights Stories
Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Participant, Producer, Screenwriter |
2011 | |||
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Free Radicals
Participant |
2010 | |||
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Visionaries
Participant |
2010 | |||
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Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR
Cinematographer, Director, Editor |
2008 | |||
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Anger Me
Participant |
2006 | |||
Jack Smith & The Destruction of Atlantis
Participant |
2006 | |||
Notes on Marie Menken
Additional Cinematography, Participant |
2006 | |||
Who Gets to Call It Art?
Participant |
2005 | |||
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A Letter from Greenpoint
Actor, Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound/Sound Designer |
2004 | |||
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Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Director |
2003 | |||
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Participant |
2002 | |||
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer |
2001 | |||
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Jonas at the Ocean
Participant |
2001 | |||
Divine Trash
Actor |
1998 | |||
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Birth of a Nation
Director |
1997 | |||
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Happy Birthday to John
Director |
1996 | |||
Nico-Icon
Participant |
1995 | |||
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Jonas in the Desert
Cinematographer, Participant, Screenwriter |
1994 | |||
| 1992 | ||||
Step Across the Border
Actor |
1990 | |||
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1988 | |||
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He Stands In A Desert Counting The Seconds of His Life
Director, Screenwriter |
1986 | |||
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Paradise Not Yet Lost
Director |
1981 | |||
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Lost Lost Lost
Director |
1976 | |||
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Cinematographer, Director, Editor |
1972 | |||
Diaries, Notes and Sketches
Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer |
1970 | |||
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Viva Book Signing
Participant |
1970 | |||
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Guns of the Trees
Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
1964 | |||
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The Brig
Director |
1964 | |||
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Scenes From the Life of Andy Warhol
Director |
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The Wolf
Book Author |
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