Jonas Mekas

**Jonas Mekas** (24. decembar 1922 - ) je američki filmski režiser, pjesnik i likovni umjetnik rodom iz Litve, poznat po zapaženim eksperimentalnim filmovima 1960-ih, zbog kojih je dobio neslužbenu reputaciju "kuma američke filmske avangarde".

## Filmography
**Guns of the Trees* (1962)
**Film Magazine of the Arts* (1963)
**[[The Brig (drama)|The Brig]]* (1964)
**Empire (1964)
**Award Presentation to Andy Warhol* (1964)
**Report from Millbrook* (1964–65)
**Hare Krishna* (1966)
**Notes on the Circus* (1966)
**Cassis* (1966)
**The Italian Notebook* (1967)
**Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel* (1968)
**Walden* (*Diaries, Notes, and Sketches*) (1969)
**Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania* (1971–72)
**Lost, Lost, Lost* (1976)
**In Between: 1964–8* (1978)
**Notes for Jerome* (1978)
**Paradise Not Yet Lost* (also known as *Oona's Third Year*) (1979)
**Street Songs* (1966/1983)
**Cups/Saucers/Dancers/Radio* (1965/1983)
**Erik Hawkins: Excerpts from “Here and Now with Watchers”/Lucia Dlugoszewski Performs* (1983)
**He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life* (1969/1985)
**Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol* (1990)
**Mob of Angels/The Baptism* (1991)
**Dr. Carl G. Jung or Lapis Philosophorum* (1991)
**Quartet Number One* (1991)
**Mob of Angels at St. Ann* (1992)
**Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas* (1992)
**The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained* (1992)
**He Travels. In Search of...* (1994)
**Imperfect 3-Image Films* (1995)
**On My Way to Fujiyama I Met…* (1995)
**Happy Birthday to John* (1996)
**Memories of Frankenstein* (1996)
**Birth of a Nation* (1997)
**Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit* (1997)
**Letter from Nowhere – Laiskas is Niekur N.1* (1997)
**Symphony of Joy* (1997)
**Song of Avignon* (1998)
**Laboratorium* (1999)
**Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes* (2000)
**This Side of Paradise* (1999)
**Notes on Andy's Factory* (1999)
**Mysteries* (1966–2001)
**As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty* (2000)
**Remedy for Melancholy* (2000)
**Ein Maerchen* (2001)
**Williamsburg, Brooklyn* (1950–2003)
**Mozart & Wien and Elvis* (2000)
**Travel Songs* (1967–1981) n
**Dedication to Leger* (2003)
**Notes on Utopia* (2003) 30 min,
**Letter from Greenpoint* (2004)
**365 Day Project* (2007), 30 hours.
**Notes on American Film Director: Martin Scorsese* (2007), 80 min.
**Lithuania and the Collapse of USSR* (2008), 4 h 50 min.
**Sleepless Nights Stories* (Premiere at the Berlinale 2011)
**My Mars Bar Movie* (2011)
* "Correspondences: José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas" (2011)
* "Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland" (2012)
* "Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man" (2012)

==Izvori==
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==Litetatura==
* Hans-Jürgen Tast (Hrsg.) „As I Was Moving. Kunst und Leben“ (Schellerten/Germany 2004) (z.m.a.K.) ;
* Efren Cuevas, “The Immigrant Experience in Jonas Mekas’s Diary Films: A Chronotopic Análisis of Lost, Lost, Lost”, Biography, vol. 29, n. 1, winter 2006, pp.&nbsp;55–73. Available at http://dspace.unav.es/dspace/bitstream/10171/3268/1/Art%20Mekas%20Biography%20publicado.pdf 

== Vanjske veze ==
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* [http://www.jonasmekasfilms.com/ Jonas Mekas' website]
* [http://www.logosjournal.com/brakhage_mekas.htm A Conversation between Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage] 
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/artarchives/2005/jul/interview_jonas_mekas.shtml Interview with 3:AM Magazine]
* [http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ The Anthology Film Archives]
* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2005/great-directors/mekas/ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]
* [http://www.mekas.lt/ Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center]
*Jonas Mekas in conversation with [http://brooklynrail.org/2010/11/art/in-conversation-with-jonas-mekas the *Brooklyn Rail'']
* Jonas Mekas poetry in English 
* A short documentary  about Jonas Mekas (29mn)
* Jonas Mekas tells his life story at Web of Stories
* Jonas Mekas' DVDs  : http://www.re-voir.com/boutique/category.php?id_category=47 
* "To Barbara Rubin With Love" by Jonas Mekas
* Jonas Mekas at the Serpentine Gallery 2012