Jonas Mekas
Born in 1922, died in 2019, known worldwide, Jonas Mekas is the main filmaker of the experimental american cinema from the 60s and 70s. He also is the creator of the "Anthology Film Archive". 

Jonas Mekas articulates his work like a diary. His "diaries" that he records with his camera - first a Bolex then a digital one - and writing trace all that happened around him: in his personnal and cultural life, but also around the avant-garde of the 50s, 60s, 70s up to 2019. Jonas Mekas is an archivist of daily life, a poet that celebrates every moment to which he gives an historic and esthetic interest. Cinema theorist, he defends at the end of the 50s John Cassavetes and Andy Warhol's auteur cinema. Close with Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, George Maciunas, Lou Reed, Richard Serra, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka,...he always finds himself at the heart of the news of his time.