Jonas Mekas Movies

Jonas Mekas visit. Harry comes by before Ricky visit. 1. 12 p.m. April 15th -- Jonas dares to come by but won't talk. I tape him not with set up --...

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...

This is a film made with outtakes from my other films and some found footage. It includes great found footage with monkeys. Sound: Auguste Varkalis...

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 series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

This was originally an art installation by Jonas Mekas which was later shown in a single-screen tetraptych.

Jonas Mekas films the inside of the Cinematheque Française. Especially while running. Part of the cycle of the First 40.

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...

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

Diary Entry: Father and Daughter (Shiva and Rumple) March 7, 2001.

This is footage from an unfinished film biography of Jackie Onasis and Lee Radziwill that I was in the process of making in 1972, but which was never...

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

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...

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

From the diaires This was taped during the editing of my film As I WasMoving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. It shows how I work,...

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

A portrait of Jonas Mekas.

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

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs