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Jan 23, 2019 · Mr. Mekas’s marriage to Hollis Melton in the early 1970s ended in divorce in the early 2000s, his son said. In addition to his son, Mr. Mekas is survived by a daughter, Oona Mekas, and a ...
Mekas married Hollis Melton in 1974. They had two children, a daughter, Oona, and a son, Sebastian. [30] His family is featured in Jonas's films, including Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man and As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty .
In 2022, the world and Lithuania celebrate the life and work of Jonas Mekas, one of the country’s most prominent cultural figures of the 20th and 21st centuries and a global cultural phenomenon in his own right, considered by many to be the “godfather of avant-garde cinema”.
Apr 25, 2013 · Mekas’s latest diary film, Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man, somewhat blunts his typical aesthetic of immediacy with a meditative framing device, one that feels (depressingly) valedictory.
Feb 8, 2005 · In 1974, Mekas married Hollis Melton. Their daughter, Oona, was born the same year. Where Mekas had found a home in the independent film community during the 1950s and ’60s, by the mid-’70s he had his own family to care for.
Jun 8, 1974 · Miss Hollis Melton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Moore Melton of Scarsdale, N. Y., was married in a civil ceremony at the Municipal Building here yesterday morning to Jonas Mekas, son...
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Apr 26, 2013 · Completed a few months before Jonas Mekas’s 90th birthday, Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man is both the latest installment in the series of some two dozen “film diaries” that Mekas has made since the late 1960s, and a new beginning. In other words, more of the same and radically different.
