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Jan 27, 2019 · Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera. Jonas Mekas himself in his 180-minute “Walden,” from 1969. Jonas Mekas/Re:Voir. “I live, therefore I make films,” Jonas Mekas once said, riffing on ...
Jan 24, 2019 · Jonas Mekas in Lost, Lost, Lost (1976). Photograph: ©Jonas Mekas. Mekas’ film-making style, he once said, was a direct result of his herculean efforts and packed schedule as a radical-culture ...
Jan 24, 2019 · J. Hoberman remembers Jonas Mekas, the critic and avant-garde filmmaker who co-founded the magazine Film Culture and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and made films such as “Guns of the Trees.”
Jan 23, 2019 · Jonas Mekas, an underground filmmaker whose influence looms as large as the archives he helped create, died Wednesday morning at the age of 96. The Lithuanian-born director, critic, archivist and ...
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JONAS MEKAS, now eighty-two, has lived—and continues to live—many lives. For six decades his work in film, video, and poetry has been largely diaristic, so one’s first impulse is to approach it through his remarkable biography. For those familiar with avant-garde film, Mekas needs need no introduction: He is the indispensable archivist ...
Jan 23, 2019 · Jonas Mekas, the Lithuanian-born filmmaker and archivist who became known as the godfather of avant-garde cinema, has died aged 96. Arriving in New York as an émigré after the Second World War, Mekas would found the influential film journal Film Culture, the Film-Maker’s Co-operative and the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, which would become ...
