Jonas Mekas Movies

Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...

Jonas Mekas shows us the five Bolex cameras that he used to make all his films, 1950-2000. They also helped other filmmakers (Jack Smith, Gregory...

"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

In 2008, Andrew Lampert, employed as the film archivist of Anthology Film Archives, endeavored to ask Jonas Mekas, its legendary and charismatic...

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

Jonas Mekas at Zebulon, a music bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, dedicating his 365 day series to Petrarca (1304-1374) the poet who wrote 365 poems to...

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

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

Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery...

A portrait movie of the Godfather of American avantgarde cinema. Through material filmed primarily in the 1990s by both the directors and Jonas Mekas...

An essayistic film journey with Jonas Mekas, the living legend of avant-garde cinema—who, at 90 years old, still dances and sings, wiry and...

A record of a journey through Italy, filmed in 1967.

Short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler, Peter Sempel.

A tribute to Jonas Mekas' late friend and patron, Jerome Hill. Filmed on 16mm across three visits to Hill’s estate in Cassis, France, the film...

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

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 .

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

An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress.

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...