Jonas Mekas
Directing • AGE 96
Jonas Mekas (24-12-1922 - 23-1-2019) 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....
Filmography
A Mixtape for Stom
2025
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Self (archive footage)
2023
Jonas Mekas Anthology
Jonas Mekas
2022
Fragments of Paradise
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Self
2022
Vertigo
2022
Notes for a Déjà vu
2022
Back from New York
Himself
2021
The Velvet Underground
Self
2021
9/11: Life Under Attack
Self
2021
The Invisible Father
Self (archive footage)
2021
Tapes
2020
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
Himself
2020
Elegy for J.M.
2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019
Requiem
Director
2019
Cinema and Sanctuary
Self
2019
Self Discovery for Social Survival
Narrator (voice)
2019
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
Self
2019
Makeshift (for Mekas)
2019
Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
2019
Beyond the Bolex
Self
2018
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
Self
2018
Nitsch
2018
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
Self
2017
From the diaries of a cinema maniac
Director
2017
On the Holy Spirit
2016
EXPRMNTL
himself
2016
I Had Nowhere to Go
Himself
2016
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
Self
2016
Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera
Director
2016
Últimas correspondencias
Self
2016
Filmstudio, mon amour
Sé stesso
2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
Self
2015
Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2015
A Report from Venice
2015
Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham
Director
2015
All About Bolex
2015
My Bolexes
Director
2015
My Birthday
2014
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
Director
2014
River of Fundament
Wake Guest
2014
Halloween 1990
Director
2014
My Conversations on Film
Himself
2013
What Is Cinema?
Self
2013
I Leave Chelsea Hotel
Director
2013
The Sixties Quartet
Director
2013
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
Jonas Mekas
2012
20 Little Films
Director
2012
Reminiscences from Germany
Self
2012
My Paris Movie
Director
2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
Director
2011
My Mars Bar Movie
himself
2011
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Himself (voice) (segment "Mt. Ventoux")
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself
2011
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
Himself
2011
Guest
Self
2011
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
Keep Singing
Director
2011
New York Conversations
2010
42 One Dream Rush
Director
2010
Lavender
Self
2010
WTC Haikus
Director
2010
Visionaries
Himself
2010
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
Himself
2009
It Came from Kuchar
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Signing
2009
Doc
Himself
2008
Question a Day
2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Self
2008
365 Day Project
Self
2007
Sunday December 30, 2007
Self
2007
Friday May 4, 2007: John Zorn – Cobra Part Two
Director
2007
Monday April 16, 2007
Director
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Self
2007
Friday March 16, 2007
Director
2007
Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
Self
2007
Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha
Director
2007
Monday Jan. 1, 2007
Director
2007
The Song of Central Park
Himself (voice)
2006
Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí
Director
2006
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
Director
2006
Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance
Director
2006
To Barbara Rubin with Love
Director
2006
Bibi Hansen
Director
2006
Carl Dreyer
Director
2006
Poets at the Living Theater
Director
2006
Bed-In: John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Director
2006
Andy at Work
Director
2006
Warhol and Maciunas
Director
2006
Robert Frank Films
Director
2006
Cinémathèque Française
Director
2006
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
Cinematography
2006
Monks of Cinema
Director
2006
To John With Love
Director
2006
John & Yoko Bed-In
Director
2006
Anger Me
Himself
2006
The Destruction Quartet
Director
2006
Who Gets to Call It Art?
Self
2006
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
The Definition of Insanity
2005
Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
2005
Excavating Taylor Mead
Self
2005
Notes on Utopia
Director
2005
Kulturplatz
Self
2004
Axiom of Choice
Self
2003
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Director
2003
Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
Himself
2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Himself
2002
Notes in Lifestyle Margins
2002
Three Friends
Director
2002
Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten
Director
2001
A Letter to Penny Arcade
2001
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Narrator (voice)
2000
Silence, Please
Director
2000
Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes
Director
2000
Mozart & Elvis
Director
2000
A Few Notes on Andy's Factory
Director
1999
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
Director
1999
Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998
Director
1998
Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97
1998
Song of Avignon
Self
1998
Nam June Paik's Piano Piece
Director
1997
Letters from Nowhere
Writer
1997
Happy Birthday to John
Director
1997
Birth of a Nation
Director
1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Self
1997
A Poet from the Lower East Side
Self
1997
Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October
Himself
1996
Michael Snow Up Close
Himself
1996
Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
Himself
1996
Celebrate Cinema 101
Director
1996
On My Way to Fujiyama I met..
Director of Photography
1995
Nico Icon
Self
1995
Imperfect Three-Image Films
Director
1995
Memories of Frankenstein
Director
1995
Jonas in the Desert
Self
1994
Jonas Mekas in Budapest
Himself
1993
The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained
Director
1992
Award
Himself
1992
Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum
Director
1991
Quartet Number One
1991
A Walk
Director
1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Self
1990
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Director
1990
Step Across the Border
Butterfly Wing
1990
Belladonna
1989
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
Self
1989
Invocation: Maya Deren
Himself
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
1986
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
Self
1986
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Persistence of Vision
Self
1984
Strong Medicine
1981
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1981
Travel Songs
Director
1981
The Song of Stockholm
Director
1981
Self-Portrait
Himself
1980
J. Mekas
Self
1980
Robert Haller's Wedding
Director
1980
ORG
Self (archive footage)
1979
Cinématon
N°1590
1978
Four Shadows
1978
Notes for Jerome
Self
1978
In Between
Director
1978
Lost, Lost, Lost
Self
1976
Postcard from America
1975
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Imagine
Self
1972
Going Home
Himself
1972
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Self
1972
Journey to Lithuania
Himself
1971
The Song of Moscow
Director
1971
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
1970
Filmmakers
Himself
1969
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
Director
1969
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
1968
A Matter of Baobab
1968
Underground New York
Self
1968
The Song of Avila
Narrator
1967
The Song of Italy
Director
1967
The Song of Assisi
Director
1967
Notes on the Circus
Director
1967
Poem Posters
Self
1967
Hare Krishna
Director
1967
For Life, Against the War
Director
1967
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Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas
himself
1966
Report from Millbrook
Director
1966
European Diaries
Sound Designer
1966
Galaxie
Self
1966
The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's Convention, NYC, 1966
Camera Operator
1966
Shooting Guns
1966
Cassis
Director of Photography
1966
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Self
1965
Jonas in the Brig
Himself
1965
Film Magazine of the Arts
Director
1965
Empire
Self (uncredited)
1965
The Brig
Director
1964
Salvador Dalí at Work
Self
1964
Hallelujah the Hills
Assistant Director
1963
Senseless
Writer
1962
Guns of the Trees
Director
1961
Viva Jonas!
Himself