Jonas Mekas Movies

From the diaries. This was filmed on July 1, 2004. From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for my new,...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Assisi in 1967, this short documents his time in the city known for its spiritual associations. The...

Self Discovery for Social Survival is a collaborative surf and music film produced by Brooklyn based record label, Mexican Summer and Pilgrim Surf +...

This was filmed at Anthology Film Archives on May 31, 2000. From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for my...

Friends and colleagues (including Yoko Ono and Merce Cunningham) of Nam June Paik share their thoughts about the groundbreaking multimedia artist in...

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the...

A very rare film "manifesto" by Mekas made in 1968 in New York, in the activist spirit of positive revolutionary change; his source for inspiration...

In 1950 Jerome Hill went to Zurich with the intention of making a film about Dr. Carl G. Jung. The project was abandoned when Hill decided that Jung...

A film tribute to the inspirational Jonas Mekas.

This was filmed on August 18, 1972 at the house of Lee Radziwill in Montauk, Long Island. The film includes Elia Kazan, Barbara Loden, Peter Beard,...

The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

A meditative tribute to Verdi’s masterpiece and an homage to beloved filmmaker Jonas Mekas.

Portrait of the architect Raimund Abraham.

A verité portrait of Jonas Mekas making his daily rounds, JONAS shows us the underground impresario attending a peace rally, filming in...

Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of...