ジョナス・メカス

監督1922-12-24Semeniškiai, Lithuania

Jonas Mekas (12-24-1922 - 1-23-2019) 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 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 brief moments of his life. He soon got deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement. In 1954, together with his brother, he started Film Culture magazine, which soon became the most important film publication in the US. In 1958 he began his legendary Movie Journal column in the Village Voice. In 1962 he founded the Film-Makers' Cooperative, and in 1964 the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema, and a screening venue. During all this time he continued writing poetry and making films. To this date he has published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, which have been translated into over a dozen languages. His Lithuanian poetry is now part of Lithuanian classic literature and his films can be found in leading museums around the world. He is largely credited for developing the diaristic forms of cinema. Mekas has also been active as an academic, teaching at the New School for Social Research, the International Center for Photography, Cooper Union, New York University, and MIT. Mekas' film The Brig was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. Other films include Walden (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), Lost Lost Lost (1975), Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), As I was Moving Ahead I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), Letter from Greenpoint (2005), Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) and Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man. In 2007, he completed a series of 365 short films released on the internet -- one film every day -- and since then has continued to share new work on his website. Since 2000, Mekas has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Moderna Museet (Stockholm), PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA, Documenta of Kassel, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Venice Biennale.

監督作品（109）

365 Day Project

Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden

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

時を数えて、砂漠に立つ

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

Requiem

WTC Haikus

歩みつつ垣間見た美しい時の数々

Quartet Number One

Song of Avignon

ウォールデン

Guns of the Trees

ロストロストロスト／何もかも失われて

リトアニアへの旅の追憶

Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

Travel Songs

Notes on the Circus

The Song of Moscow

The Brig

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

The Song of Avila

To Barbara Rubin with Love

Birth of a Nation

The Song of Stockholm

Cassis

My Birthday

For Life, Against the War

A Letter to Penny Arcade

Report from Millbrook

In Between

The Song of Assisi

Notes on an American Film Director at Work

Imperfect Three-Image Films

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

The Song of Italy

Sleepless Nights Stories

This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography

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

Hare Krishna

Salvador Dalí at Work

42 One Dream Rush

Happy Birthday to John

Brakhage Crosses Central Park

Friday March 16, 2007

A Visit to Stan Brakhage

Destruction of the Berlin Wall

Silence, Please

My Bolexes

Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes

Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance

The Sixties Quartet

Three Friends

Notes for Jerome

Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum

Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007

Celebrate Cinema 101

Bibi Hansen

All About Bolex

A Report from Venice

Carl Dreyer

Monday Jan. 1, 2007

Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham

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

A Walk

Self-Portrait

Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland

Nam June Paik's Piano Piece

Poets at the Living Theater

Bed-In: John Lennon & Yoko Ono

Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998

Andy at Work

Warhol and Maciunas

Film Magazine of the Arts

Robert Frank Films

20 Little Films

Robert Haller's Wedding

Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old

Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten

Cinémathèque Française

Lavender

On the Holy Spirit

I Leave Chelsea Hotel

The Destruction Quartet

Monks of Cinema

Halloween 1990

Notes on Utopia

The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained

On My Way to Fujiyama I met..

My Mars Bar Movie

From the diaries of a cinema maniac

Memories of Frankenstein

Keep Singing

Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

My Paris Movie

A Few Notes on Andy's Factory

Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí

Laiškai iš niekur

The Song of Central Park

Tapes

Monday April 16, 2007

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

Sunday December 30, 2007

To John With Love

John & Yoko Bed-In

Mozart & Elvis

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出演作品（125）

The Definition of Insanity

365 Day Project

Filmstudio, mon amour

Anger Me

時を数えて、砂漠に立つ

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

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Step Across the Border

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

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

歩みつつ垣間見た美しい時の数々

Nico Icon

Quartet Number One

Song of Avignon

Im Spiegel der Maya Deren

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

ウォールデン

Gena Rowlands — Unabhängig im Kino und im Leben

Four Shadows

リトアニアへの旅の追憶

Journey to Lithuania

It Came from Kuchar

George

IMAGINE イマジン

Beyond the Bolex

ロストロストロスト／何もかも失われて

Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

ヴェルヴェット・アンダーグラウンド

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Who Gets to Call It Art?

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man

Fragments of Paradise

Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

What Is Cinema?

The Song of Avila

Tiny Tim: King for a Day

Michael Snow Up Close

My Birthday

Guest

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

Visionaries

Makeshift (for Mekas)

A Letter to Penny Arcade

Kulturplatz

River of Fundament

Strong Medicine

Notes on an American Film Director at Work

Jonas in the Desert

Going Home

Self Discovery for Social Survival

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

Jonas tourne toujours

Salvador Dalí at Work

Invocation: Maya Deren

A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol

Cartoline dall'America

ORG

Cinématon

Empire

Mes entretiens filmés

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

Notes for a Déjà vu

Cinema and Sanctuary

Persistence of Vision

All About Bolex

A Report from Venice

Sugrįžę iš Niujorko

The Signing

Lavender

Home Movies 1971-81

Ginsberg - egy költö a Lower East Side-ról

眩暈 Vertigo

Galaxie

Jono Meko antologija

Notes for Jerome

J. Mekas

Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo

Viva Jonas!

Doc

On the Holy Spirit

I Had Nowhere to Go

Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland

Jonas in the Brig

Underground New York

Self-Portrait

Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007

Meet The Kuchar Brothers

Filmmakers

Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old

New York Conversations

Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

Question a Day

Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground

Poem Posters

Excavating Taylor Mead

A Matter of Baobab

Nitsch

Award

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

My Mars Bar Movie

Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

Friday The 13 Okt, Jonas Mekas

Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas

The Song of Central Park

Tapes

Elegy for J.M.

Axiom of Choice

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank

EXPRMNTL

The Invisible Father

Sunday December 30, 2007

Pastabos gyvenimo būdo paraštėse

Jonas Mekas in Budapest

Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol

Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet

Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97

A Mixtape for Stom

Shooting Guns

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

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