Jonas Mekas Movies

Jonas, Birgit and Anja are leaving for the Brooklyn Bridge. By taxi, buying beer, drinking in the street, joking, running, dancing on the bridge. It...

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,...

This documentary cracks open the meticulously constructed façade of Andy Warhol, exposing the complex figure behind the soup cans and...

On October 9, 1972, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse hosted an exhibition of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s work, designed by Fluxus artist...

On January 1st of 2007, Mekas began his epic "365" project inspired by the Italian poet Petrarca and his Canzoniere. Releasing one film for every day...

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

Portrait of the architect Raimund Abraham.

The film tells about the famous Lithuanian director Vytautas Žalakevičius. The film contains many excerpts from the director's films and...

Made 1965 / 1983 With Kenneth King and Phoebe Neville. "Kenneth King's CUP/SAUCER/TWO DANCERS/RADIO (1964) is an essay in Pop Art style, in which all...

Jonas Mekas came to Paris in October 1997 for the video release of his film Walden. I filmed the event and its twists and turns at the...

This was filmed on November 1, 1997 at Anthology Film Archives during a tribute to Joseph Beuys. Nam June Paik destroys a piano. From the cycle of...

Created by Anthology’s Archivist John Klacsmann, the visual track of Elegy for J.M. is the result of an encoding malfunction while preparing a...

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.

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...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Avila in 1967, this short records his impressions of the city, inspired by Meher Baba’s teaching...

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel.

The Velvet Underground's first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist's Convention, at the Delmonico Hotel, New York, January 14,...

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

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