Jonas Mekas
Biography
Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. In 1944, he and his brother Adolfas were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Elmshorn, Germany. After the War he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz. At the end of 1949 the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York City, where they settled down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Two months...Read More
Known For
Acting Career
- 2022
Jonas Mekas Anthology
As: Jonas Mekas
- 2019
Self Discovery for Social Survival
As: Narrator (voice)
- 2014
River of Fundament
As: Wake Guest
- 2012
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
As: Jonas Mekas
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As: Narrator (voice)
- 1990
Step Across the Border
As: Butterfly Wing
- 1978
Cinématon
As: N°1590
- 1967
The Song of Avila
As: Narrator