IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

      NL
      Jonas Mekas

      Jonas Mekas

      Jonas MEKAS (1922, Lithuania) spent World War II in a concentration camp and emigrated to the US in 1949. Since then, he has been actively involved with American avant-garde film as editor, critic, filmmaker and theoretician. His best-known film is The Brig (1964), a film version of a theatre production shot in one night with a shoulder camera. He co-founded the Anthology Film Archive. There have been exhibitions on Mekas and his extensive oeuvre all over the world.


      Filmography

      Guns of the Trees (1961), Film Magazine of the Arts (1963, short), The Brig (1964, doc), Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964, short), Report from Millbrook (1966, short) Hare Krishna (1966), Notes on the Circus (1966, short), Cassis (1966, short), The Italian Notebook (1967, short), Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1968, short, co-dir), Walden (Diaries Notes and Sketches) (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), Lost, Lost, Lost (1976), In Between (1978, short), Notes for Jerome (1978, short), Paradise Not Yet Lost (1980), Street Songs (1966/1983, short), Cup/Saucer/Dancers/Radio (1965/1983, short), Erik Hawkins Excerpts from Here and Now with Watchers/Lucia Dlugoszewski Performs (1983, short), He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of his Life (1969/1985), Scenes From the Life of Andy Warhol (1990, short), Mob of Angels/The Baptism (1991), Zefiro torna/Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992, short), The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained (1992), Imperfect 3-Image films (1995, short), On My Way to Fujiyama (1995, short), Happy Birthday to John (1996, short), Memories of Frankenstein (1996), Birth of a Nation (1997), Scenes from Allen’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997), Laiskas is Niekur N.1/Letter from Nowhere (1997), Song of Avignon (1998, short), Laboratorium (1999), This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography (1999, short), Notes on Andy’s Factory (1999), As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), Autobiography of a Man Who Carried His Memory in His Eyes (2000), Song of Avignon (2000, short), Remedy for Melancholy (2000, short), Ein Marchen (2001, short), Williamsburg, Brooklyn (1950-2003), Mozart & Wein and Elvis (2000, short), Travel Songs (1967-1981, short), Dedication to Leger (2003, instal), Notes on Utopia (2003, short), Letter from Greenpoint (2004), Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR (2009), I Leave Chelsea Hotel (2009, short), Sleepless Nights Stories (2011), My Paris Movie (2011), My Bars Bar Movie (2011), Correspondences: José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas (2011), Re: George Maciunas and Fluxus (2011), Mont Ventoux (2011, short), Happy Easter Ride (2012, short), Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland (2012, short)


      Jonas Mekas at IFFR