Jonas Mekas

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Gender	Male
Death	4 years ago
Date of birth	December 24,1922
Zodiac sign	Capricorn
Born	Semeniskiai
	Lithuania
Date of died	January 23,2019
Died	New York
	New York
	United States
Children	Sebastian Mekas
	Oona Mekas
Job	Actor
	Film director
	Poet
	Curator
	Film Producer
	Screenwriter
	Cinematographer
	Film Editor
	Filmmaker
Awards	Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
	Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Siblings	Adolfas Mekas
	Elzbieta Mekas
	Petras Mekas
	Povilas Mekas
	Kostas Mekas
Parents	Povilas Mekas
	Elzbieta Mekas
Date of Reg.	2019-03-03 16:54:15
Date of Upd.	2023-09-15 14:42:46
ID	488323

I had nowhere to go
Just like a shadow
A Dance with Fred Astaire
Movie journal
Conversations with Filmmakers
There is no Ithaca
Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
My night life
Laiškai iš niekur
Jonas Mekas
Idylls of Semeniskiai
To Petrarca: Who Walked Over the Hills of Provence
Movie Journal: The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971
Message Ahead
Words Apart and Others
I Seem to Live: Diaries (1950-1971)
You Killed Me First: The Cinema of Transgression
Dagboksfilmen: The Diary Film
Jonas Mekas: this side of paradise
Zefiro Torna, Or, Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
Jonas Mekas: Celebration of the Small and Personal in the Times of Bigness
365 day project: May 16 - June 20
Bum-Ba Bum- Ba: Conversations with John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Jonas Mekas: The Camera was Always Running

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Walden
Lost, Lost, Lost
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
The Brig
Guns of the Trees
Outtakes From The Life Of A Happy Man
Sleepless Nights Stories
Empire
Notes On The Circus
Birth of a Nation
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
Correspondence: Jonas Mekas - Jl Guer n
Song Of Avignon
That Summer
Step Across the Border
Jonas in the Jungle
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
A Letter From Greenpoint
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland
Paradise Not Yet Lost, or Oona's Third Year
Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham
Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
My Mars Bar Movie
Notes On An American Film Director At Work: Martin Scorsese
Visionaries
What Is Cinema?
River of Fundament
Nico Icon
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
Happy Birthday to John
Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR
Jonas Mekas In Kodachrome Days
Belladonna
Tam Tam
The Definition of Insanity
Remanence I - (Lost, Lost, Lost, Lost)
Allen Ginsberg: An Elegy

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Jonas Mekas Life story

Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". Mekas' work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide.