Jonas Mekas Movies

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents...

Filmed in 1967 (camera: Gideon Bachmann), edited in 2009. I exit Chelsea Hotel and proceed towards Seventh Avenue where I catch a taxi. From 1967 to...

Clip from Walden.

This was filmed July 1-4, 1965 in Millbrook, at the estate of Timothy Leary. It is with Baba Ramdass and house guests. Sound: me talking about...

I close the 365 Day Project and announce the 1001 Nights Project ---HASTA LA VISTA! ---

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for...

A document of a Living Theater performance in Cassis, France, this piece was filmed in 1966 but only edited and released in 2002, with a newly...

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are...

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....

A short lecture by Jonas Mekas

An autobiographical vignette, this is a stop in Marseilles in the summer of 1966. I am sharing a croissant with a cat while boyan singing, presenting...

This was filmed in the Bronx on July 17, 1993. It includes writings on train passage walls created by many classic graffiti artists of c. 1993...

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One hour with a women's drumming group led by Layne Redmond, who has devoted her life to reviving the ancient Mediterranean tradition of women's...

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

Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.

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

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

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.