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Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas
Born in Lithuania in 1922, Jonas Mekas has lived a uniquely influential life as a filmmaker, writer, critic and poet. He survived a World War II labor camp and postwar displacement before immigrating to New York in 1949 to embark upon an extraordinary career in the arts, playing an instrumental role in the careers of Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and numerous other iconic artists and hanging out with everyone from Maya Deren to John and Yoko, from Tiny Tim to Salvador Dalí.


Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

Jonas Mekas on Stealing Anaïs Nin's Cookies and Receiving Poems from Allen Ginsberg
October 6, 2017  By Jonas Mekas
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