Author · Lithuania
Jonas Mekas
Died in 2019
Jonas Mekas was born on 24 December 1922 at Semeniškiai, near Papilys, and completed his secondary education at Biržai. He left in 1944 with his brother Adolfas, spent eight months in a forced labour camp at Elmshorn, then lived in displaced persons camps and studied philosophy at Mainz. Arriving in New York in 1949, he bought his first camera at once, edited the journal Film Culture and in 1970 founded the Anthology Film Archives, becoming a major figure of avant-garde cinema. Awarded the Lithuanian National Prize in 1995, he died in New York on 23 January 2019.
In the catalogue 2
- PoetryIdylls of SemeniskiaiSemeniškių idilėsJonas Mekas · 1948Literature
- DocumentaryWalden: Diaries, Notes, and SketchesJonas Mekas · 1969Cinema