Background
Mekas, Jonas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai, Lithuania. American, 1949.
Mekas, Jonas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai, Lithuania. American, 1949.
Studied philosophy & romance languages, University Mainz, Germany.
Author, Film Culture column Village Voice, since 1958. Co-founder Filmmakers' Cooperative, 1962. Founder Filmmakers' Cinémathèque (later Anthology Film Archives), 1964, Essential Cinema Collection, 1970.
(poetry, tr Vyt Bakaitis, foreword Czeslaw Milosz)