Actor
Jonas Mekas
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 ...

Known For
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Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Poster Path

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

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Jonas Mekas Anthology

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Fragments of Paradise

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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

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