Jonas Mekas (24-12-1922 - 23-1-2019) was born 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.
Now screening in Brussels
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Also by Jonas Mekas
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
2012
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
1999
Song of Avignon
1998
A Walk
1990
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Notes on the Circus
1967