Jonas Mekas
Meslek:Yönetmenlik
Doğum:1922-12-24
Ölüm:2019-01-23
Doğum Yeri:Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Film Sayısı:159
Dizi Sayısı:1
Jonas Mekas (12-24-1922 - 1-23-2019) 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. 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...
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