"Reading an obituary for Jonas Mekas, the preeminent champion of underground cinema who died on January 23rd at the age of 96, I was struck by the fact that he started off writing for a Second World War-era underground newspapers in his native Lithuania, as part of the resistance against the Nazis. Mekas’s commitment to the idea of a revolutionary-minded underground obviously preceded his aesthetic activism in the early 1960s in making what he dubbed the 'New American Cinema,' an emerging wave of independently made, poetic, personal films, accessible via screenings in a variety of off-the-beaten-path downtown New York locations. ... Jonas created an alternative establishment for alternative films; while many saw underground movies as a fad of the 60s, he obviously sensed a permanence to their value and position in the culture that warranted such institutional foundations. ..."
The Wire
Guardian: 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film
NY Times - Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera
A Conversation Between Film Legend Jonas Mekas and Director Jim Jarmusch
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artbook: Conversations with Filmmakers
Voice - ‘I’m Like the Last Leaf of a Big Tree’: A Conversation With Jonas Mekas
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2014 October: Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side, 2016 February: Jonas Mekas, 2017 July: Patti Smith Sang Some Lou Reed at a Gala For Anthology Film Archives’ Expansion, 2017 August: Jonas Mekas talks about Movie Journal, 2018 May: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954 - 2010
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