Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas

Directing

Born December 24, 1922 · Semeniškiai, Lithuania

161 films as director · Active 1961–2020

Jonas Mekas (24 December 1922 - 23 January 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 Elmsho…

Known for

Kulturplatz

Kulturplatz

2004

Guest

Guest

2011

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections

1990

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000

Imagine

Imagine

1972

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

2023

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

2018

The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground

2021

Directed(161)

Tapes

Requiem

2019Requiem★ 8.0

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

2017I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance★ 8.0

2017From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac

From the diaries of a cinema maniac

2017From the diaries of a cinema maniac

On the Holy Spirit

2016On the Holy Spirit

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera

2016Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera★ 9.2

Últimas correspondencias

2016Últimas correspondencias

Hollywood Party

2016Hollywood Party

Memories of Jerome Hiler

2016Memories of Jerome Hiler

My Bolexes

All About Bolex

2015All About Bolex

A Report from Venice

2015A Report from Venice

Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham

2015Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham

New Seasons Movement IV

2015New Seasons Movement IV

Reconnecting with an Old Friend

2015Reconnecting with an Old Friend

My Birthday

2014My Birthday★ 6.0

Halloween 1990

2014Halloween 1990

Have A Good Day!

2014Have A Good Day!

The Sixties Quartet

2013The Sixties Quartet

I Leave Chelsea Hotel

2013I Leave Chelsea Hotel

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man

2012Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man★ 6.7

Reminiscences from Germany

2012Reminiscences from Germany

20 Little Films

201220 Little Films★ 6.0

Happy Easter Ride

2012Happy Easter Ride

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

2011Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin★ 7.0

Sleepless Nights Stories

2011Sleepless Nights Stories★ 5.3

2011First Class Flight

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

20113.11 A Sense of Home Films★ 6.5

Mont Ventoux

2011Mont Ventoux

My Mars Bar Movie

2011My Mars Bar Movie

Keep Singing

2011Keep Singing

Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

2011Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

My Paris Movie

2011My Paris Movie

WTC Haikus

2010WTC Haikus★ 7.9

42 One Dream Rush

201042 One Dream Rush★ 6.0

Lavender

2010Orchard Street

2009Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR★ 9.0

Notes on an American Film Director at Work

2008Notes on an American Film Director at Work★ 5.5

Friday March 16, 2007

2007Friday March 16, 2007

Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007

2007Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007

Monday Jan. 1, 2007

2007Monday Jan. 1, 2007

Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha

2007Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha

365 Day Project

2007365 Day Project★ 10.0

Monday April 16, 2007

2007Monday April 16, 2007

Friday May 4, 2007: John Zorn – Cobra Part Two

2007Friday May 4, 2007: John Zorn – Cobra Part Two

Sunday December 30, 2007

2007Sunday December 30, 2007

2007Saturday Jan. 6

2007Friday Feb. 23, 2007

A Visit to Stan Brakhage

2006A Visit to Stan Brakhage

Destruction of the Berlin Wall

2006Destruction of the Berlin Wall

Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance

2006Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance

2006John & Yoko Bed-In

To Barbara Rubin with Love

2006To Barbara Rubin with Love★ 6.3

2006A Visit to Stan Brakhage★ 5.0

2006A Visit to Timothy Leary

2006Dedication to Matsuo Basho

Bibi Hansen

2006Bibi Hansen

Carl Dreyer

2006Carl Dreyer

Nam June Paik's Piano Piece

2006Nam June Paik's Piano Piece

Poets at the Living Theater

2006Poets at the Living Theater

Warhol and Maciunas

2006Warhol and Maciunas

Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998

2006Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998

Andy at Work

2006Andy at Work

Robert Frank Films

2006Robert Frank Films

Salvador Dalí at Work

2006Salvador Dalí at Work★ 5.0

Cinémathèque Française

2006Cinémathèque Française

Brakhage Crosses Central Park

2006Brakhage Crosses Central Park★ 4.0

The Destruction Quartet

2006The Destruction Quartet

Monks of Cinema

2006Monks of Cinema

Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí

2006Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí

The Song of Central Park

2006The Song of Central Park

To John With Love

2006To John With Love

John & Yoko Bed-In

2006John & Yoko Bed-In

The Monks of Cinema

2006The Monks of Cinema

A Visit to Timothy Leary

2006A Visit to Timothy Leary

I Am Searching for Nothing

2006I Am Searching for Nothing

Fluxus on the Hudson

2006Fluxus on the Hudson

Elia Kazan

Jonas' Independence Speech at the Anniversary of the Filmmaker's Cooperative

2006Jonas' Independence Speech at the Anniversary of the Filmmaker's Cooperative

Phil Glass Plays for Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles

2006Phil Glass Plays for Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles

Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC

2006Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC

End of the Millennium Espresso

2006End of the Millennium Espresso

2006Imperfect Film

Taping for As I was Moving Ahead…

2006Taping for As I was Moving Ahead…

Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues

2006Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues

Kreutzer Sonata

2006Kreutzer Sonata

Jackie & Lee Fragments of an Unfinished Biography

2006Jackie & Lee Fragments of an Unfinished Biography

2005Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch

Notes on Utopia

2005Notes on Utopia

2004A Letter from Greenpoint

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

2003Williamsburg, Brooklyn★ 6.5

2003A Visit To Hans Richter

Three Friends

2002Three Friends

Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten

2001Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten★ 7.0

A Letter to Penny Arcade

2001A Letter to Penny Arcade★ 6.0

2001Diary Entry: Father and Daughter

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty★ 7.8

Silence, Please

2000Silence, Please

Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes

2000Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes

Requiem for a Manual Typewriter

2000Requiem for a Manual Typewriter

Mozart & Elvis

2000Mozart & Elvis

This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography

1999This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography★ 5.9

Laboratorium Anthology

1999Laboratorium Anthology

Letter to John from Jonas

1999Letter to John from Jonas

A Few Notes on Andy's Factory

1999A Few Notes on Andy's Factory

Song of Avignon

1998Song of Avignon★ 7.5

Happy Birthday to John

1997Happy Birthday to John★ 5.3

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

1997Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit★ 5.2

Birth of a Nation

1997Birth of a Nation★ 7.0

Letters from Nowhere

1997Letters from Nowhere

Celebrate Cinema 101

1996Celebrate Cinema 101

Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old

1996Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old

1996Song of The Salamander

Imperfect Three-Image Films

1995Imperfect Three-Image Films★ 5.5

On My Way to Fujiyama I met..

1995On My Way to Fujiyama I met..

Memories of Frankenstein

1995Memories of Frankenstein

1993Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress

Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)

1992Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)★ 6.2

The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained

1992The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained

Quartet Number One

1991Quartet Number One★ 7.5

Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum

1991Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections

1990Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections★ 6.6

A Walk

1990Mob of Angels: Baptism

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

1986He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life★ 8.4

1983Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio

1983Street Songs

1983Erick Hawkins: Excerpts from "Here and Now with Watchers"

Travel Songs

1981Travel Songs★ 6.6

The Song of Stockholm

1981The Song of Stockholm★ 6.3

Self-Portrait

1980Self-Portrait★ 9.0

Robert Haller's Wedding

1980Robert Haller's Wedding

1979Paradise Not Yet Lost★ 10.0

Notes for Jerome

1978Notes for Jerome★ 7.0

In Between

1978In Between★ 6.1

Lost, Lost, Lost

1976Lost, Lost, Lost★ 7.1

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

1972Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania★ 7.0

The Song of Moscow

1971The Song of Moscow★ 6.7

1971Marcel Hanoun wedding

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

1969Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel★ 5.8

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

1968Diaries, Notes, and Sketches★ 7.3

Notes on the Circus

1967Notes on the Circus★ 6.7

Hare Krishna

1967Hare Krishna★ 4.9

1967The Italian Notebook

The Song of Avila

1967The Song of Avila★ 6.4

The Song of Assisi

1967The Song of Assisi★ 5.8

The Song of Italy

1967The Song of Italy★ 5.3

For Life, Against the War

1967For Life, Against the War★ 6.0

Cassis

1966Cassis★ 6.4

Report from Millbrook

1966Report from Millbrook★ 6.1

Film Magazine of the Arts

1965Film Magazine of the Arts★ 9.0

The Brig

1964The Brig★ 6.8

1964Award Presentation to Andy Warhol★ 7.5

Guns of the Trees

1961Guns of the Trees★ 7.3

Acting(176)

2025A Mixtape for Stom

2023Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TVSelf (archive footage)

2022Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

2022Jonas Mekas AnthologyJonas Mekas

2022Fragments of ParadiseSelf (archive footage)

2022Film: The Living Record of Our MemorySelf

2022Notes for a Déjà vu

2021Back from New YorkHimself

2021The Velvet UndergroundSelf

20219/11: Life Under AttackSelf

2021The Invisible FatherSelf (archive footage)

2020Tiny Tim: King for a DayHimself

2019Elegy for J.M.

2019Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

2019Cinema and SanctuarySelf

2019Self Discovery for Social SurvivalNarrator (voice)

2019Gena Rowlands: A Life on FilmSelf

2019Makeshift (for Mekas)

2019Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1Self

2019Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas

20193 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)

2019Jonas Towards Broadway

2018Beyond the BolexSelf

2018Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground

2018George: The Story of George Maciunas and FluxusSelf

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

2016On the Holy Spirit

2016Memories of Jerome Hiler

2016EXPRMNTLhimself

2016I Had Nowhere to GoHimself

2016Reminiscences of Jonas MekasSelf

2016Últimas correspondenciasSelf

2015Filmstudio, mon amourSé stesso

2015A Day in the Life of Andy WarholSelf

2015Reconnecting with an Old Friend

2015Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet

2015A Report from Venice

2015All About Bolex

2014My Birthday

2014River of FundamentWake Guest

2014Have A Good Day!Self

2013My Conversations on FilmHimself

2013Jonas in the JungleSelf

2013What Is Cinema?Self

2012Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy ManJonas Mekas

2012Maya Deren, Take ZeroHimself

2012Reminiscences from GermanySelf

2011My Paris Movie

2011My Mars Bar Moviehimself

20113.11 A Sense of Home FilmsHimself (voice) (segment "Mt. Ventoux")

2011Free Radicals: A History of Experimental FilmHimself

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

2011Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

2011Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

2010Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekashimself

2010New York Conversations

2010LavenderSelf

2010VisionariesHimself

2009Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome DaysHimself

2009It Came from KucharSelf (archive footage)

2009The Signing

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

2008Question a Day

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

2008Notes on an American Film Director at WorkSelf

2007365 Day ProjectSelf

2007Sunday December 30, 2007Self

2007Jack Smith and the Destruction of AtlantisSelf

2007Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007Self

2006The Song of Central ParkHimself (voice)

2006Salvador Dalí at WorkSelf

2006Jonas' Independence Speech at the Anniversary of the Filmmaker's Cooperative

2006Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC

2006End of the Millennium Espresso

2006Imperfect Film

2006Taping for As I was Moving Ahead…

2006Kreutzer Sonata

2006Anger MeHimself

2006Notes on Marie MenkenSelf

2006Who Gets to Call It Art?Self

2006Meet The Kuchar Brothers

2006Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video MasterSelf

2005The Definition of Insanity

2005Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol

2005Excavating Taylor MeadSelf

2005Notes on UtopiaSelf

2004KulturplatzSelf

2004A Letter from GreenpointMekas

2003Not in Our Namehimself

2003Axiom of ChoiceSelf

2002Jonas Keeps Shooting AroundHimself

2002In the Mirror of Maya DerenHimself

2002Notes in Lifestyle Margins

2001A Letter to Penny Arcade

2000As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of BeautyNarrator (voice)

2000Requiem for a Manual TypewriterHimself

1999This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished BiographySelf

1999Letter to John from Jonas

1999Laboratorium AnthologyHimself

1998Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97

1998Song of AvignonSelf

1998My Country is CinemaSelf

1997Birth of a NationSelf

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

1997A Poet from the Lower East SideSelf

1996Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th OctoberHimself

1996Michael Snow Up CloseHimself

1996Cinema Is Not 100 Years OldHimself

1995Nico IconSelf

1994Jonas in the DesertSelf

1993Jonas Mekas in BudapestHimself

1993The Misfits - 30 Years of FluxusSelf

1992Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)

1992Cinématon n°1590 : Jonas Mekas

1992AwardHimself

1991Just Visiting This Planet

1991Quartet Number One

1991Interview and Reading: Jonas MekasHimself

1990Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy WarholSelf

1990Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and IntersectionsSelf

1990Step Across the BorderButterfly Wing

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

1986Invocation: Maya DerenHimself

1986He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His LifeSelf (archive footage)

1986Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert FrankSelf

1985Home Movies 1971-81

1984Persistence of VisionSelf

1981Strong Medicine

1981The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

1981Travel SongsSelf (uncredited)

1980No. 18: MahagonnySelf

1980Self-PortraitHimself

1980J. MekasSelf

1979ORGSelf (archive footage)

1979Paradise Not Yet LostHimself

1978CinématonN°1590

1978Four Shadows

1978Notes for JeromeSelf

1976Lost, Lost, LostSelf

1975Postcard from America

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

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

1972ImagineSelf

1972Going HomeHimself

1972Reminiscences of a Journey to LithuaniaSelf

1971Up Your Legs ForeverSelf - Legs

1971Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971Self

1971Journey to LithuaniaHimself

1970Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo

1969FilmmakersHimself

1968Diaries, Notes, and SketchesSelf

1968A Matter of Baobab

1968JonasHimself

1968Underground New YorkSelf

1967The Song of AvilaNarrator

1967Poem PostersSelf

1966Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekashimself

1966GalaxieSelf

1966The Love MerchantLounge Patron

1966Shooting Guns

1965Andy Warhol Screen TestsSelf

1965Jonas in the BrigHimself

1965EmpireSelf (uncredited)

1964Award Presentation to Andy WarholSelf

1962Diane the Zebra Woman

1961The Sin of Jesus

Viva Jonas!Himself

Fragments of an Unfinished Biography of Jackie & Lee

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