Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jonas Mekas, a towering figure in New York’s avant-garde film scene and a pioneering force for film preservation, died today at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jonas Mekas, the Lithuania-born filmmaker who started Film Culture magazine and the organization that became New York’s Anthology ...

Temporary foreign passport of Jonas Mekas, issued by the German Third Reich, listing his profession as worker and his address as Elmshorn, c. 1944 (all images courtesy the Estate of Jonas Mekas) The ...

Avant-garde filmmaker, co-founder of Anthology Film Archives and Film Culture, and much more, NYC icon Jonas Mekas has died at age 96. “Jonas passed away quietly and peacefully early this morning. He ...

When Jonas Mekas reached New York in 1949, he was a shy Lithuanian refugee who had endured, with his brother Adolfas, a Nazi labor camp and various DP (displaced persons) camps in Europe. He kept ...

Jonas Mekas, the fabled Lithuanian-born artist and experimental filmmaker who was widely regarded as the father of underground cinema, and whose New York loft was a nexus of the 1960s avant-garde, ...

The Jewish Museum presents Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running, the first U.S. museum survey of the Lithuanian-born filmmaker, poet, critic, and institution-builder who helped shape the ...

He recorded John Lennon’s honeymoon and helped give Andy Warhol his start in filmmaking. So it makes sense, then, that the filmmaker and photographer Jonas Mekas – often regarded as the godfather of ...

Mekas also co-founded New York City's esteemed Anthology Film Archives in 1970. Jonas Mekas, the avant-garde film icon who is widely considered one of the most important figures in experimental film ...

Mekas’s diaristic film clips, left behind when he died, fuel a new documentary that renders an intimate portrait of a man who often trafficked in the abstract. By Colin Moynihan An innovative ...