Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In celebration of the centenary of his birth, the Independent Cinema Office, Lithuanian Cultural Institute and curator Herb Shellenberger present the Jonas Mekas 100! UK Cinema Tour, a series bringing together several of Jonas Mekas’s most-celebrated films alongside lesser-seen works. After pioneering his own poetic and expressive use of the handheld 16mm Bolex—a camera more associated with home movies and amateur filmmakers than with “real cinema”—Mekas would later adopt new consumer video and digital camera technologies, experimenting to develop his own personal technique with each. Across four programmes, this series brings together works made between 1966 and 2017, showing the many different styles and modes of cinema that Mekas worked in. A fifth program contextualises Mekas’s work as a programmer, through showing the work of his friends and co-conspirators whose films he exhibited at Anthology Film Archives.
In UK cinemas from September - November 2022.
independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/tours/jonas-mekas-100
#JonasMekas100
In celebration of the centenary of his birth, the Independent Cinema Office, Lithuanian Cultural Institute and curator Herb Shellenberger present the Jonas Mekas 100! UK Cinema Tour, a series bringing together several of Jonas Mekas’s most-celebrated films alongside lesser-seen works. After pioneering his own poetic and expressive use of the handheld 16mm Bolex—a camera more associated with home movies and amateur filmmakers than with “real cinema”—Mekas would later adopt new consumer video and digital camera technologies, experimenting to develop his own personal technique with each. Across four programmes, this series brings together works made between 1966 and 2017, showing the many different styles and modes of cinema that Mekas worked in. A fifth program contextualises Mekas’s work as a programmer, through showing the work of his friends and co-conspirators whose films he exhibited at Anthology Film Archives.
In UK cinemas from September - November 2022.
independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/tours/jonas-mekas-100
#JonasMekas100
