Jonas Mekas Movies

From the diaries. This was filmed on July 1, 2004.

Shortfilm in which Mekas follows a band on a boat ride on Easter Day.

Clip from Walden.

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...

Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...

"There I am, I am treated with the First Class ticket. Evening. But all the businessmen are already sleeping. I can’t sleep. I discover a bar....

Imperfect 3-Image Films | EUA, 1995, 16 mm, pb-cor, 6' ... MOCAtv Presents 'In Focus' - Jonas Mekas - The Artist's Studio by MOCA 9,101 .

The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.

In 1969, Leonardi traveled to the United States to write a book about the New American Cinema. Using a Super-8 camera, he made a film-diary of this...

Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the...

The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York. This...

Filmmaker Michael Rogosin's fascinating exploration of the production history behind his father Lionel's groundbreaking documentary, On the Bowery.

New York Conversations is a documentary made of varied conversations revolving around cinema in New York. These conversations give us the opportunity...

A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

This was taped in March 1990 at my 491 Broadway place. It is with Allen Ginsberg, Gozo Yashimasu, Leo Adams, others.

A video record of a mental and physical journey through 5,000 years of Egypt at the End of History; an attempt to reconnect with the Source, with...

In late 1966 I visited Stan Brakhage in Rollinsville, Colorado. This is a portrait of Stan at home, with his family, his animals, and the...

The real history of the cinema is the invisible history – history of friends getting together doing the thing the love – for us the...