喬納斯·梅卡斯

Jonas Mekas

個人簡介

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 after his arrival in New York he borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. He soon got deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement. In 1954, together with his brother, he started Film Culture magazine, which soon became the most important film publication in the US. In 1958 he began his legendary Movie Journal column in the Village Voice. In 1962 he founded the Film-Makers' Cooperative, and in 1964 the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema, and a screening venue.

During all this time he continued writing poetry and making films. To this date he has published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, which have been translated into over a dozen languages. His Lithuanian poetry is now part of Lithuanian classic literature and his films can be found in leading museums around the world. He is largely credited for developing the diaristic forms of cinema. Mekas has also been active as an academic, teaching at the New School for Social Research, the International Center for Photography, Cooper Union, New York University, and MIT.

Mekas' film The Brig was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. Other films include Walden (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), Lost Lost Lost (1975), Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), As I was Moving Ahead I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), Letter from Greenpoint (2005), Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) and Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man. In 2007, he completed a series of 365 short films released on the internet -- one film every day -- and since then has continued to share new work on his website.

Since 2000, Mekas has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Moderna Museet (Stockholm), PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA, Documenta of Kassel, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Venice Biennale.

生日

1922年12月24日

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喬納斯·梅卡斯的電影作品

年份	電影	職務
2023	激浪派錄像藝術教父：白南準飾演 Self (archive footage)	飾演 Self (archive footage)
2022	Fragments of Paradise 飾演 Self (archive footage)	飾演 Self (archive footage)
2022	電影忘不了飾演 Self	飾演 Self
2021	THE VELVET UNDERGROUND：樂與怒的暗黑美學飾演 Self	飾演 Self
2014	重生之河飾演 Wake Guest	飾演 Wake Guest
2010	42 分一幻夢導演	導演
2000	當我往前走之時偶爾會瞥到一縷美麗之景導演 Writer Cinematography Editor 旁白	導演 Writer Cinematography Editor 旁白
1997	Happy Birthday to John 導演	導演
1997	Birth of a Nation 導演 Editor Writer Cinematography	導演 Editor Writer Cinematography
1997	Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit 導演 Editor Cinematography 飾演 Self	導演 Editor Cinematography 飾演 Self
1997	A Poet from the Lower East Side 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1990	Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1986	He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 導演 Writer Cinematography Editor 飾演 Self (archive footage)	導演 Writer Cinematography Editor 飾演 Self (archive footage)
1986	Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1981	Strong Medicine 演員	演員

1978	Cinématon 飾演 N°1590	飾演 N°1590
1976	失，失，失導演 Writer Cinematography Editor 飾演 Self	導演 Writer Cinematography Editor 飾演 Self
1968	筆記·日志·素描導演 Writer Editor Cinematography 飾演 Self 飾演 self	導演 Writer Editor Cinematography 飾演 Self 飾演 self
1968	Underground New York 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1966	Galaxie 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1961	Guns of the Trees 導演 Writer Editor Cinematography	導演 Writer Editor Cinematography