Jonas Mekas

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.

Casted

The Velvet Underground

Played Self

Average Rating

6.8

112 votes

Release Date

Oct 15, 2021

4 years ago
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Played Narrator (voice)

Average Rating

7.7

77 votes

Release Date

Nov 05, 2000

25 years ago
Empire

Played Self (uncredited)

Average Rating

4.2

43 votes

Release Date

Mar 06, 1965

61 years ago
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

42 votes

Release Date

Aug 30, 1996

30 years ago
Imagine

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

29 votes

Release Date

Dec 23, 1972

54 years ago
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Played Self

Average Rating

7.4

27 votes

Release Date

Mar 01, 1968

58 years ago
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Played self

Average Rating

7.4

27 votes

Release Date

Mar 01, 1968

58 years ago
Song of Avignon

Played Self

Average Rating

7.4

24 votes

Release Date

Jul 03, 1998

28 years ago
Lost, Lost, Lost

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

22 votes

Release Date

Sep 14, 1976

50 years ago
What Is Cinema?

Played Self

Average Rating

6.4

21 votes

Release Date

Sep 06, 2013

12 years ago
River of Fundament

Played Wake Guest

Average Rating

5.9

18 votes

Release Date

Feb 12, 2014

12 years ago
In the Mirror of Maya Deren

Played Himself

Average Rating

7.4

17 votes

Release Date

Mar 15, 2002

24 years ago
Step Across the Border

Played Butterfly Wing

Average Rating

7.9

12 votes

Release Date

Sep 08, 1990

36 years ago
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

Played Himself

Average Rating

7.0

12 votes

Release Date

Apr 09, 2011

15 years ago
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Played Himself

Average Rating

6.7

11 votes

Release Date

Jul 24, 2011

14 years ago
Tiny Tim: King for a Day

Played Himself

Average Rating

6.1

11 votes

Release Date

Aug 20, 2020

5 years ago
Nico Icon

Played Self

Average Rating

7.5

10 votes

Release Date

Sep 08, 1995

31 years ago
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man

Played Jonas Mekas

Average Rating

6.5

9 votes

Release Date

Dec 01, 2012

13 years ago
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Played Self (archive footage)

Average Rating

8.2

9 votes

Release Date

Feb 22, 1986

40 years ago
It Came from Kuchar

Played Self (archive footage)

Average Rating

7.0

9 votes

Release Date

Sep 22, 2009

16 years ago
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Played Self (archive footage)

Average Rating

6.9

8 votes

Release Date

Mar 24, 2023

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

Average Rating

5.8

8 votes

Release Date

Dec 31, 1992

33 years ago
Guest

Played Self

Average Rating

6.0

8 votes

Release Date

Mar 25, 2011

15 years ago
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Played Self

Average Rating

6.6

8 votes

Release Date

Apr 11, 2007

19 years ago
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

Played Self

Average Rating

8.3

7 votes

Release Date

Aug 12, 2022

3 years ago
The Song of Avila

Played Narrator

Average Rating

6.4

7 votes

Release Date

Dec 31, 1967

59 years ago
ORG

Played Self (archive footage)

Average Rating

4.9

7 votes

Release Date

Aug 31, 1979

47 years ago
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

Average Rating

7.9

7 votes

Release Date

Nov 05, 1974

52 years ago
Who Gets to Call It Art?

Played Self

Average Rating

6.7

7 votes

Release Date

Feb 01, 2006

20 years ago
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

Average Rating

6.0

6 votes

Release Date

Aug 01, 1981

45 years ago
The Love Merchant

Played Lounge Patron

Average Rating

4.4

6 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1966

61 years ago
My Conversations on Film

Played Himself

Average Rating

3.2

6 votes

Release Date

Oct 13, 2013

12 years ago
Cinématon

Played N°1590

Average Rating

4.3

6 votes

Release Date

Dec 20, 1978

47 years ago
The Sin of Jesus

Average Rating

4.8

6 votes

Release Date

Dec 10, 1961

65 years ago
Strong Medicine

Average Rating

5.6

5 votes

Release Date

Nov 25, 1981

45 years ago
Going Home

Played Himself

Average Rating

5.4

5 votes

Release Date

Oct 04, 1972

54 years ago
Notes on Marie Menken

Played Self

Average Rating

5.4

5 votes

Release Date

Apr 20, 2006

20 years ago
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Played Self

Average Rating

7.2

5 votes

Release Date

Jun 05, 2019

6 years ago
Self Discovery for Social Survival

Played Narrator (voice)

Average Rating

5.4

5 votes

Release Date

Jun 15, 2019

6 years ago
Notes on an American Film Director at Work

Played Self

Average Rating

5.6

5 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 2008

18 years ago
Anger Me

Played Himself

Average Rating

8.8

4 votes

Release Date

Oct 23, 2006

19 years ago
Fragments of Paradise

Played Self (archive footage)

Average Rating

6.5

4 votes

Release Date

Aug 31, 2022

3 years ago
Jonas in the Desert

Played Self

Average Rating

5.5

4 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1994

32 years ago
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

Average Rating

2.9

4 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 2008

18 years ago
Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Played Self

Average Rating

8.0

3 votes

Release Date

Nov 28, 1965

61 years ago
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Played Self

Average Rating

7.3

3 votes

Release Date

Jul 18, 1990

36 years ago
Four Shadows

Average Rating

7.0

2 votes

Release Date

Oct 03, 1978

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

Played Self

Average Rating

5.2

2 votes

Release Date

Jul 03, 1997

29 years ago
No. 18: Mahagonny

Played Self

Average Rating

5.5

2 votes

Release Date

Sep 13, 1980

46 years ago
Invocation: Maya Deren

Played Himself

Average Rating

5.0

2 votes

Release Date

Apr 24, 1986

40 years ago
Dirt

Average Rating

8.0

2 votes

Release Date

Sep 25, 1965

61 years ago
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

Played Himself

Average Rating

6.5

2 votes

Release Date

Dec 31, 2009

16 years ago
Beyond the Bolex

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

2 votes

Release Date

Nov 08, 2018

7 years ago
Quartet Number One

Average Rating

7.5

2 votes

Release Date

Jul 03, 1991

35 years ago
3.11 A Sense of Home Films

Played Himself (voice) (segment "Mt. Ventoux")

Average Rating

6.5

2 votes

Release Date

Sep 11, 2011

14 years ago
Filmstudio, mon amour

Played Sé stesso

Average Rating

10.0

2 votes

Release Date

Oct 21, 2015

10 years ago
Michael Snow Up Close

Played Himself

Average Rating

6.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1996

30 years ago
My Birthday

Average Rating

6.0

1 votes

Release Date

Dec 23, 2014

11 years ago
Jonas Keeps Shooting Around

Played Himself

Average Rating

5.0

1 votes

Release Date

Aug 01, 2002

24 years ago
Maya Deren, Take Zero

Played Himself

Average Rating

5.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 30, 2012

14 years ago
Diane the Zebra Woman

Average Rating

9.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1962

65 years ago
The Definition of Insanity

Average Rating

10.0

1 votes

Release Date

Dec 10, 2005

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

Played Self

Average Rating

8.0

1 votes

Release Date

Sep 01, 2017

8 years ago
Salvador Dalí at Work

Played Self

Average Rating

5.0

1 votes

Release Date

Nov 11, 2006

19 years ago
Journey to Lithuania

Played Himself

Average Rating

7.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1971

56 years ago
Visionaries

Played Himself

Average Rating

6.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 2010

16 years ago
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

1 votes

Release Date

Sep 03, 1965

61 years ago
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

1 votes

Release Date

Feb 21, 2018

8 years ago
Makeshift (for Mekas)

Average Rating

6.0

1 votes

Release Date

May 25, 2019

6 years ago
TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penny Arcade June 25, 2001

Average Rating

6.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jun 23, 2001

25 years ago
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol

Played Self

Average Rating

5.0

1 votes

Release Date

Aug 25, 2015

10 years ago
365 Day Project

Played Self

Average Rating

10.0

1 votes

Release Date

Dec 31, 2007

18 years ago
Postcard from America

Average Rating

5.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1975

52 years ago
My Country is Cinema

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1998

28 years ago
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Apr 08, 2019

7 years ago
Notes for a Déjà vu

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Feb 21, 2022

4 years ago
Cinema and Sanctuary

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jun 20, 2019

6 years ago
Persistence of Vision

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1984

42 years ago
All About Bolex

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 2015

11 years ago
A Report from Venice

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jun 01, 2015

11 years ago
Back from New York

Played Himself

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Oct 25, 2021

4 years ago
The Signing

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 2009

17 years ago
Lavender

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jun 01, 2010

16 years ago
Home Movies 1971-81

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1985

41 years ago
A Poet from the Lower East Side

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1997

29 years ago
Belladonna

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

May 22, 1989

37 years ago
Vertigo

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jul 13, 2022

3 years ago
Galaxie

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Sep 03, 1966

60 years ago
Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas

Played Himself

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1991

35 years ago
Jonas Mekas Anthology

Played Jonas Mekas

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Sep 03, 2022

3 years ago
Notes for Jerome

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jul 03, 1978

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

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Sep 21, 2022

3 years ago
The Lamb

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes
J. Mekas

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1980

46 years ago
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1970

57 years ago
Viva Jonas!

Played Himself

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes
Doc

Played Himself

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Dec 09, 2008

17 years ago
Just Visiting This Planet

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Sep 05, 1991

35 years ago
Jonas

Played Himself

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1968

59 years ago
The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'

Played Self

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 2009

17 years ago

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