Open Archives 91 ABOUT OPEN ARCHIVES A weekly glimpse into the personal archives of the late filmmaker and artist Jonas Mekas, who for over eight decades chronicled his life with typewriter and camera. Ranging from ephemera to video diaries, unseen letters to newly transferred reel-to-reel audio recordings, each week will focus on an item from the archives at its new home at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City ABOUT JONAS MEKAS STUDIO Jonas Mekas Studio fosters the legacy of the late artist and filmmaker Jonas Mekas, working to preserve and share his vast personal archives and audio-visual diaries.