Jonas Mekas Movies

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

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

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016

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...

Portrait of the architect Raimund Abraham.

Jonas Mekas recites poems of his, both in English and Lithuanian. Exclusive Mekas interview by the poet Sparrow. The legendary poet-film critic and...

Jerome Hill had a little outdoor theater on the shore of the Mediterranean. Usually he brought over some musicians, like the Julliard Quartet. But in...

A newsreel of Jonas Mekas shooting his filmed version of The Brig on the set of the Living Theatre production.

Two artists, whose work was constrained during the Soviet era, fled to New York. There, they met with their guru Jonas Mekas, the creator of...

A portrait movie of the Godfather of American avantgarde cinema. Through material filmed primarily in the 1990s by both the directors and Jonas Mekas...

In 2008, Andrew Lampert, employed as the film archivist of Anthology Film Archives, endeavored to ask Jonas Mekas, its legendary and charismatic...

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

Video diary film by Jonas Mekas, premiered at the British Film Institute on December 5, 2017.

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

A film tribute to the inspirational Jonas Mekas.

The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978.

Shortfilm in which Mekas follows a band on a boat ride on Easter Day.

An autobiographical diary film assembled from unused footage shot between 1960 and 2000, interwoven with reflections, music, and glimpses of family,...

A short lecture by Jonas Mekas

Filmed in 1950 soon after Jonas Mekas arrived in New York, this short documents everyday life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was the first film he...