JONAS MEKASDIARYABOUT JONASWRITINGVIDEOMUSICART & INSTALLATIONS Jonas Mekas and Friends In Concert – Berlin – July 7, 2018. August 8, 2018 – 6:09 pm. By Jonas | Comments (0) | Permalink

JONAS MEKAS

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

Six-DVD Box Set: The Major Works. This box brings together the key works of Jonas Mekas, one of the most prolific avant-garde film artists and an acclaimed poet. Born in Lithuania in 1922, chased west by Soviet and Nazi forces, Mekas and his brother spent four years in German displaced persons' camps before arriving in New York in 1949

where

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Jonas Mekas. "A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends," agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris.

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. Self Portrait. 1980, 20 min. A Walk. 1990, 58 min. Filmed on Dec. 15, 1990. On a rainy day, I have a walk through the early Soho. I begin my walk on 80 Wooster Street and continue towards the Williamsburg bridge, where, 58 minutes later, still raining, my walk

ends.

JONAS MEKAS

I have as of now c. 2000 hours of video footage. It goes back to 1988. I decided to share some of it with you. This new series will be called

PIECES.

JONAS MEKAS

The First 40. The cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for my new, Internet audience. All of them are based on my earlier films but slightly, sometimes more than slightly, changed. I consider them works complete in themselves, seperate from the main body of my film work. 1.

JONAS MEKAS

It is good that Idylls, called by historians of Lithuanian poetry the best poetic work by Jonas Mekas, appear now in English translation. Mekas has been recently honored in America and France as a promoter of avant-garde cinema, of a movement created by independent film-makers, which, though marginal as compared with Hollywood, is seminal for

JONAS MEKAS

This book is a first hand account of the life, thoughts and feelings of a Displaced Person. It's a painful record of one person's experiences in a Nazi Forced Labor camp; five years in Displaced Persons camps; and the first years as a young Lithuanian immigrant in New York City. "Jonas Mekas' diaries have an aching honesty, puckish

humor and

JONAS MEKAS

Éditions Dis Voir, 2009 64 pgs + 70 min audio CD editions in English and French available through the publisher. To Petrarca is a book and CD set, consisting of a sound diary, an original sound piece culled from Jonas Mekas' personal archives, originally broadcast on radio France Culture on June 29th, 2003. It is expanded in the accompanying book by his personal drawings, photos and JONAS MEKASDIARYABOUT JONASWRITINGVIDEOMUSICART & INSTALLATIONS Jonas Mekas and Friends In Concert – Berlin – July 7, 2018. August 8, 2018 – 6:09 pm. By Jonas | Comments (0) | Permalink

JONAS MEKAS

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

Six-DVD Box Set: The Major Works. This box brings together the key works of Jonas Mekas, one of the most prolific avant-garde film artists and an acclaimed poet. Born in Lithuania in 1922, chased west by Soviet and Nazi forces, Mekas and his brother spent four years in German displaced persons' camps before arriving in New York in 1949

where

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. "A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends," agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris.

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. Self Portrait. 1980, 20 min. A Walk. 1990, 58 min. Filmed on Dec. 15, 1990. On a rainy day, I have a walk through the early Soho. I begin my walk on 80 Wooster Street and continue towards the Williamsburg bridge, where, 58 minutes later, still raining, my walk

ends.

JONAS MEKAS

I have as of now c. 2000 hours of video footage. It goes back to 1988. I decided to share some of it with you. This new series will be called

PIECES.

JONAS MEKAS

The First 40. The cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for my new, Internet audience. All of them are based on my earlier films but slightly, sometimes more than slightly, changed. I consider them works complete in themselves, seperate from the main body of my film work. 1.

JONAS MEKAS

It is good that Idylls, called by historians of Lithuanian poetry the best poetic work by Jonas Mekas, appear now in English translation. Mekas has been recently honored in America and France as a promoter of avant-garde cinema, of a movement created by independent film-makers, which, though marginal as compared with Hollywood, is seminal for

JONAS MEKAS

This book is a first hand account of the life, thoughts and feelings of a Displaced Person. It's a painful record of one person's experiences in a Nazi Forced Labor camp; five years in Displaced Persons camps; and the first years as a young Lithuanian immigrant in New York City. "Jonas Mekas' diaries have an aching honesty, puckish

humor and

JONAS MEKAS

Éditions Dis Voir, 2009 64 pgs + 70 min audio CD editions in English and French available through the publisher. To Petrarca is a book and CD set, consisting of a sound diary, an original sound piece culled from Jonas Mekas' personal archives, originally broadcast on radio France Culture on June 29th, 2003. It is expanded in the accompanying book by his personal drawings, photos and

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. When I grew up, in my little village, in Lithuania, we were always singing. So I continue it now in New York and Brooklyn. Mostly I sing with the band Now We Are Here at Zebulon. But we do it also in other music venues. Between 1990 and 1995, a music group that became known as Free Music on Second Street held jam sessions in the

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. Poetry. Idylls of Semeniškiai. 1. Old is the Rushing of the Rain. 2. How Sweet the Smell of Spring. 6. Tilling of Gardens and the Sweltering Time.

JONAS MEKAS

I have as of now c. 2000 hours of video footage. It goes back to 1988. I decided to share some of it with you. This new series will be called

PIECES.

JONAS MEKAS

Diary; About Jonas. Biographical; Interviews; Press; Writing. Books; Poetry; Video. Pieces; The First 40; 365 Day Project; Online Materials; Available on DVD; Music

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. click above to view an excerpt. Artist Book. onestar press, 2003. available through amazon. Jonas Mekas's artist book is a virtual scrapbook of postcards, notes, drawings, and letters that friends and artists have sent him over the years. It acts as a printed

JONAS MEKAS

one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve

JONAS MEKAS

Steidl, 2000 edited by Patrick Remy and Jérôme Sans available through amazon. 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. Actor or witness of all the New York avant-gardes, where this Lithuanian refugee fled during the

war.

JONAS MEKAS

Established in 2007 in Vilnius, the JMVAC is a heroic attempt to provide a home for avante-garde film in Eastern Europe. Temporarily in a rented facility, it's in the process of fixing its own place in the old part of Vilnius where it will have a permanent screening room and space for its archives and library.

JONAS MEKAS

My written diaries covering the years 1953-1964. Continuation of I Had Nowhere to Go which covered years 1944-1953. This volume covers a lot of my film activities of the period: the creation of Film Culture magazine, Film-Makers' Cooperative, New American Cinema Group, travelling film expositions in Europe, life in New York etc. etc. It will contain many rare photographs and documents from the

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JONAS MEKAS

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

Six-DVD Box Set: The Major Works. This box brings together the key works of Jonas Mekas, one of the most prolific avant-garde film artists and an acclaimed poet. Born in Lithuania in 1922, chased west by Soviet and Nazi forces, Mekas and his brother spent four years in German displaced persons' camps before arriving in New York in 1949

where

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. "A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends," agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris.

JONAS MEKAS

I have as of now c. 2000 hours of video footage. It goes back to 1988. I decided to share some of it with you. This new series will be called

PIECES.

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. Self Portrait. 1980, 20 min. A Walk. 1990, 58 min. Filmed on Dec. 15, 1990. On a rainy day, I have a walk through the early Soho. I begin my walk on 80 Wooster Street and continue towards the Williamsburg bridge, where, 58 minutes later, still raining, my walk

ends.

JONAS MEKAS

Diary; About Jonas. Biographical; Interviews; Press; Writing. Books; Poetry; Video. Pieces; The First 40; 365 Day Project; Online Materials; Available on DVD; Music

JONAS MEKAS

The First 40. The cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for my new, Internet audience. All of them are based on my earlier films but slightly, sometimes more than slightly, changed. I consider them works complete in themselves, seperate from the main body of my film work. 1.

JONAS MEKAS

It is good that Idylls, called by historians of Lithuanian poetry the best poetic work by Jonas Mekas, appear now in English translation. Mekas has been recently honored in America and France as a promoter of avant-garde cinema, of a movement created by independent film-makers, which, though marginal as compared with Hollywood, is seminal for

JONAS MEKAS

Éditions Dis Voir, 2009 64 pgs + 70 min audio CD editions in English and French available through the publisher. To Petrarca is a book and CD set, consisting of a sound diary, an original sound piece culled from Jonas Mekas' personal archives, originally broadcast on radio France Culture on June 29th, 2003. It is expanded in the accompanying book by his personal drawings, photos and JONAS MEKASDIARYABOUT JONASWRITINGVIDEOMUSICART & INSTALLATIONS Jonas Mekas and Friends In Concert – Berlin – July 7, 2018. August 8, 2018 – 6:09 pm. By Jonas | Comments (0) | Permalink

JONAS MEKAS

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

Six-DVD Box Set: The Major Works. This box brings together the key works of Jonas Mekas, one of the most prolific avant-garde film artists and an acclaimed poet. Born in Lithuania in 1922, chased west by Soviet and Nazi forces, Mekas and his brother spent four years in German displaced persons' camps before arriving in New York in 1949

where

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. "A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends," agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris.

JONAS MEKAS

I have as of now c. 2000 hours of video footage. It goes back to 1988. I decided to share some of it with you. This new series will be called

PIECES.

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. Self Portrait. 1980, 20 min. A Walk. 1990, 58 min. Filmed on Dec. 15, 1990. On a rainy day, I have a walk through the early Soho. I begin my walk on 80 Wooster Street and continue towards the Williamsburg bridge, where, 58 minutes later, still raining, my walk

ends.

JONAS MEKAS

Diary; About Jonas. Biographical; Interviews; Press; Writing. Books; Poetry; Video. Pieces; The First 40; 365 Day Project; Online Materials; Available on DVD; Music

JONAS MEKAS

The First 40. The cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for my new, Internet audience. All of them are based on my earlier films but slightly, sometimes more than slightly, changed. I consider them works complete in themselves, seperate from the main body of my film work. 1.

JONAS MEKAS

It is good that Idylls, called by historians of Lithuanian poetry the best poetic work by Jonas Mekas, appear now in English translation. Mekas has been recently honored in America and France as a promoter of avant-garde cinema, of a movement created by independent film-makers, which, though marginal as compared with Hollywood, is seminal for

JONAS MEKAS

Éditions Dis Voir, 2009 64 pgs + 70 min audio CD editions in English and French available through the publisher. To Petrarca is a book and CD set, consisting of a sound diary, an original sound piece culled from Jonas Mekas' personal archives, originally broadcast on radio France Culture on June 29th, 2003. It is expanded in the accompanying book by his personal drawings, photos and

JONAS MEKAS

Six-DVD Box Set: The Major Works. This box brings together the key works of Jonas Mekas, one of the most prolific avant-garde film artists and an acclaimed poet. Born in Lithuania in 1922, chased west by Soviet and Nazi forces, Mekas and his brother spent four years in German displaced persons' camps before arriving in New York in 1949

where

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. When I grew up, in my little village, in Lithuania, we were always singing. So I continue it now in New York and Brooklyn. Mostly I sing with the band Now We Are Here at Zebulon. But we do it also in other music venues. Between 1990 and 1995, a music group that became known as Free Music on Second Street held jam sessions in the

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. Poetry. Idylls of Semeniškiai. 1. Old is the Rushing of the Rain. 2. How Sweet the Smell of Spring. 6. Tilling of Gardens and the Sweltering Time.

JONAS MEKAS

I have as of now c. 2000 hours of video footage. It goes back to 1988. I decided to share some of it with you. This new series will be called

PIECES.

JONAS MEKAS

Diary; About Jonas. Biographical; Interviews; Press; Writing. Books; Poetry; Video. Pieces; The First 40; 365 Day Project; Online Materials; Available on DVD; Music

JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas. click above to view an excerpt. additional excerpts can be found in the poetry section. Daybooks 1970-72. Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2003. translated from Lithuanian by Vyt Bakaitis. available through amazon. Seventy-six poems, I wrote them between 1970 and 1972, in Lithuanian.

JONAS MEKAS

one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve

JONAS MEKAS

Steidl, 2000 edited by Patrick Remy and Jérôme Sans available through amazon. 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. Actor or witness of all the New York avant-gardes, where this Lithuanian refugee fled during the

war.

JONAS MEKAS

My written diaries covering the years 1953-1964. Continuation of I Had Nowhere to Go which covered years 1944-1953. This volume covers a lot of my film activities of the period: the creation of Film Culture magazine, Film-Makers' Cooperative, New American Cinema Group, travelling film expositions in Europe, life in New York etc. etc. It will contain many rare photographs and documents from the

JONAS MEKAS

Established in 2007 in Vilnius, the JMVAC is a heroic attempt to provide a home for avante-garde film in Eastern Europe. Temporarily in a rented facility, it's in the process of fixing its own place in the old part of Vilnius where it will have a permanent screening room and space for its archives and library.

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* Pieces

* The First 40

* 365 Day Project

* Online Materials

* Available on DVD

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