Jonas Mekas, the indefatigable filmmaker, critic, poet, and all-around guiding spirit of independent cinema, passed away at his home in Brooklyn on Wednesday. He was 96 years old. Simple descriptors ...

Editor’s note, December 15, 2025: In the November 21, 1968, issue of the Voice, readers of Howard Smith’s Scenes column received, in a long caption under a production photo, a sneak preview of a new ...

Mekas rallied for cinema’s independence long before there was a Sundance and all the American indie rest. In 1960, he put that fight into a manifesto, “Cinema of the New Generation,” which he ...

Jonas Mekas in Douglas Gordon’s ‘I Had Nowhere to Go’ (2016) It’s also crucial that I Had Nowhere to Go is presented in a movie theater and not a gallery setting. As an installation, the project would ...

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