Jonas Mekas Movies

A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in...

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

For some time I had been thinking about doing something with my Paris footage, of which I have many many hours. So [curator Danièle...

In the 1960s, beat poet and experimental filmmaker Piero Heliczer helped shape New American Cinema, and was enmeshed with iconic filmmaker Andy...

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...

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

Shot in 1950 upon arriving in America, Mekas did not edit and present the footage until 2003 making this both his first and last film shot on 16mm.

Part Two of John Zorn's COBRA (see April 16 for Part One).

A film by Alfredo Leonardi.

An experimental short by Beth B. It consists of rapidly intercut close-ups of talking heads reading statements from a Sigmund Freud case history;...

A video record of a mental and physical journey through 5,000 years of Egypt at the End of History; an attempt to reconnect with the Source, with...

Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel. This fake interview with ‘Lapland’s...

"Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas / Version 1": this is the last filmed interview of Jonas Mekas. This is a last gift from Jonas to us.

I filmed the young Bibi Hansen in 1966 as a screen test for a film I wanted to make out the life of a young girl growing up in New York. The film was...

Summary of the first fifty years Jonas Mekas spent in New York.

The short film is a montage of sped up clips of The Ringling Brothers Circus in action set to a musical track. The film is separated into four...

Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait, Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian, their heads rotating in radiant...

A film tribute to the inspirational Jonas Mekas.

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

Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.