Jonas Mekas, had he lived, would have been 101 this year, but Fragments of Paradise (Kunhardt Films) keeps him very much alive. To many, he was the Godfather of Experimental Cinema; to others, a friend, a mentor, and an inspiration. He was also a devoted father and husband. All those roles are seen in K.D. Davison’s wonderful documentary, which looks at Mekas’ career and dips into the endless hours of footage on which he recorded his everyday life on his 16mm Bolex camera. It’s this footage that tells his story most effectively. Young Jonas and his brother Adolfus fled war-torn Lithuania and, via the traumas of a forced labour camp in Germany, found themselves in New York City in 1952. Starved of culture in their homeland, they devoured art, theatre and cinema in New York. “We were Hungry,...