Let's remember one of the greatest Lithuanians of our times.Here is a interview with Jonas Mekas in March 2015. Jonas Mekas, c.1966 Jonas Mekas, c.1966, Walden (Film still) JM: Myself, Stan Brakhage and P. Adams Sitney, we all came from a background of poetry. Jonas Mekas, Director: The Brig.
Please, read an interview with Jonas Mekas done in his home in New York. Actor or witness of all the New York avant-gardes, where this Lithuanian refugee fled during the war. Text. About Jonas.
Walden, originally titled Diaries, Notes and Sketches (also known as Walden), is a 1968 American film by experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas.After several years of filming everyday scenes from his life, Mekas was commissioned by the Albright–Knox Art Gallery to make Walden.It was his first major diary film, and he named it after Henry David Thoreau's 1854 memoir Walden. Andy Warhol & Edie Sedgwick Interview (Merv Griffin Show 1965) by Merv GriffinShow. It was in 1962 that we created Filmmakers Co-operative and we also established a little showcase, Filmmakers Showcase, where we began screening films every weekend. Pieces; The First 40; 365 Day Project; Online Materials; Available on DVD; Music; Art & Installations; The Archives; Jokes & Anecdotes; Friends; Contact ; Online Interviews.
Thanks to Nika Bohinc of Ekran magazine (Slovenia) and Regina Schlagnitweit of the Austrian Filmmuseum.
Natasha Kurchanova: Thank you for taking your time for this interview, Jonas. Jonas Mekas has received numerous grants and awards, including from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Albright Knox Gallery, and the Long Wharf Theater Foundation, and is a member of the American Center of P.E.N and the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts. Jonas Mekas (Lithuanian: [ˈjonɐs ˈmækɐs]; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema".His work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide. 2000: Vogue Magazine (with Stan Brakhage, via Logos Journal) ALL CLOTHING: MEKAS’S OWN. Curator, writer and filmmaker Jonas Mekas is the godfather of American avant-garde filmmaking, or the New American Cinema, as he dubbed it in the late 1950s. Online Interviews. Jonas Mekas has died aged 96.In this 2017 interview, Gaby Wood spoke to the filmmaker and photographer about his life's work. jonas mekas in new york, july 2015. all clothing: mekas’s own. In November 1970 Jonas Mekas … Jonas Mekas has died aged 96.In this 2017 interview, Gaby Wood spoke to the filmmaker and photographer about his life's work. Born in Lithuania and imprisoned by the Nazis during WWII, the two brothers emigrated to the United States in 1949 after being four years as … Books; Poetry; Video. “During a skirmish with the police he dropped it into the ocean. 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film Simon Hattenstone He mentored Warhol, partied with Dalí and showed John and Yoko the perfect espresso. Steidl, 2000 edited by Patrick Remy and Jérôme Sans available through amazon. I never did anything because I was ‘interested’ in it, but from a certain kind of compulsion. Alain Elkann interviews Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and founder of Anthology Film Archives in New York. Jonas Mekas is one of the great pillars of avant-garde filmmaking, the author of nearly 100 movies, which gave shape to a film genre called film diary, and most importantly, he may be the happiest man in the world.This comes from being in the right place at the right time: Manhattan in the 60s. Text. Online Interviews.
Around the year 1959 I bought the second Bolex.” All photos … Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Jonas Mekas on … The Jonas Mekas Interview. ... Jonas Mekas: The Making of Andy Warhol’s ‘Empire’ by HENI Talks. Supporter of intimate and experimental cinematographical screenwriting for the Village Voice since its creation, co-founder of the Anthology Film Archive, at age 78 Jonas Mekas still doesn't care about Hollywood. In Jonas Mekas: Interviews, volume editor Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker collects eighteen interviews covering almost sixty years of the filmmaker’s career. Jonas Mekas in 1950, with his first Bolex. Curator, writer and filmmaker Jonas Mekas is the godfather of American avant-garde filmmaking, or the New American Cinema, as he dubbed it in the late 1950s. More than 60 years of tireless work in film, arts and media has earned him the epithet "The Godfather of American Avant-Garde Cinema". In November 1970 Jonas Mekas … Mekas is an integral figure in the history of what used to be called underground cinema, not just as a film-maker, but as a writer, a curator and a catalyst. 5:01. Jonas Mekas is one of the great pillars of avant-garde filmmaking, the author of nearly 100 movies, which gave shape to a film genre called film diary, and most importantly, he may be the happiest man in the world.This comes from being in the right place at the right time: Manhattan in the 60s.