Desc: Jonas in the Fields: Directed by Peter Sempel. With Jonas Mekas, Sebastian Mekas, Julian Schnabel, Steve Buscemi. Jonas Mekas died in 2019 aged 96. Since the end of the 1980s, Peter Sempel has met the film poet regularly all over the world. Now it's time to film the final encounters: Chez Mekas in Brooklyn, in the fields of Lithuania where he grew up, on a reading tour in Hamburg. On the way, he meets artists for whom Mekas was an inspiration: Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Julian Schnabel. In one of the last scenes, Mekas looks up at the sky and says: »Look, the birds are happy.