At the age of 86, Jonas Mekas is still making seminal works: in 2009, he completed a documentary about director Martin Scorsese and premiered an autobiographical piece, almost seven hours long, in January at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
His work is regularly shown in principal museums and film institutes around the world and he continues to film the lives of his friends on a daily basis.
His collaborations with Andy Warhol, Alan Ginsberg, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Salvador Dali, as well as with other acclaimed cult artists, are famous.
His vitality and dedication are an example to several generations of filmmakers and other artists.
Jonas Mekas will give a Master class at Culturgest based on excerpts from his films and will talk with the audience after several screenings during the festival.

One state was disintegrated, one national identity devastated, in order for - in the current (and hopefully final) moment - seven new states, seven new identities to emerge. The ideological whirlwind took place not only on the threshold of the so-called "civilized Europe", but in front of many cameras, some determined to record more than just journalistic observations. The proposed retrospective is thus an experiment: an attempt to unite multiple visions - not all political and not all politically correct - into one once again; an examination of possible common denominators or perhaps obvious differences; an exploration of an inherently political conflict which tragically passed as an ethnical one; last but not least, a long-due discovery of some neglected talents whose only sin was that their original vision did not conform to what was (and perhaps still is) expected from them.
Jurij Meden