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6 unusual facts about Jonas Mekas


Benn Northover

For over a decade he has been a close collaborator with legendary artist and filmmaker Jonas Mekas, leading to several film and video projects and a number of international gallery exhibitions including the Centre Pompidou and Agnès B’s Galerie du Jour in Paris.

Mekas

Jonas Mekas (born 1922), Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator

News from Home

There she took petty jobs, made films and befriended filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and the cinematographer Babette Mangolte, who would become one of her recurring collaborators.

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania is a 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas.

Robert Polidori

He moved to the United States when he was ten and arrived in New York in 1969, where he got a job as an assistant to a filmmaker Jonas Mekas at the Anthology Film Archives, producing a number of avant-garde films in the early 1970s.

SYR6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage prisiminimui

The title and liner notes were translated by Lithuanian filmmaker Jonas Mekas.


Giuseppe Zevola

Both his life and his art have been greatly influenced by his intellectual exchanges with Hermann Nitsch, Peter Kubelka, Antonio Gargano, Buz Barclay, Jonas Mekas and Bernard Heidsieck.


see also

Adolfas

Adolfas Mekas (1925–2011), Lithuanian film director, and brother of Jonas Mekas

Mekas

Adolfas Mekas (1925–2011), Lithuanian film director, brother of Jonas Mekas