His son, Sebastian, confirmed the death. It is rare to have consensus on the pre-eminence of any person in the arts. But few would argue that Mekas, who was often called the godfather or the guru of ...

In the 1920s, a new kind of movie started showing in Paris theatres, and the audiences were… confused. These movies were a radical departure from the ones they had known until then. These new films ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jonas Mekas the Lithuanian-born director, critic, patron and poet widely regarded as the godfather of modern American avant-garde film and as an indispensable documenter of his adopted ...