The definitive Wikipedia entry for Jonas Mekas. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Mekas
Mekas is regarded as one of the most important and influential experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. Born in Lithuania in 1922, he was resettled in the US after the Second World War, having endured periods in forced labour and displaced person cam www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/art/meadgallery/jonasmekas/
Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai, Lithuania. He currently lives and works in New York. In 1944, Jonas Mekas and his brother, Adolfas, were taken by the Nazis and imprisoned in a forced labor camp in Nazi Germany for eight months. After the W www.jonasmekas.com/bio.php
In 1954, Mekas became editor-in-chief of Film Culture magazine. He was the movie critic for the Village Voice newspaper in New York from 1958-75, and the movie critic for Soho Weekly News newspaper, also in New York, from 1976-77. He was President of Ne www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/17/mekas_filmo.html
