Jonas Mekas Movies

Images of Moscow filmed in 1970 as part of Mekas's "Travel Songs" series.

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....

The video traces the history of the Factory, describes the activities that took place in it, and the historical context. Actual locations are shown...

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

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

Scenes from the life and work of independent film-makers. Includes Douglas Gordon, Peter Hutton, Ken Jacobs, Alexander Kluge, Harmony Korine, Peter...

In late 1966 I visited Stan Brakhage in Rollinsville, Colorado. This is a portrait of Stan at home, with his family, his animals, and the...

The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.

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

In 1971, Jonas Mekas was permitted by the Soviet authorities to visit his mother in Lithuania whom he had not seen for 27 years. On his return trip,...

Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.

In 1967, I decided to visit Avila where I had an enlightening experience.

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". Part of the cycle of The First 40.

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...

I Had Nowhere To Go is based on Jonas Mekas’s diary. It’s been over 70 years since he left his village in Lithuania to escape Nazi...

An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress.

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

Pedro, at Nick Cave's favorite caipirinha bar in São Paolo, gives a lesson in how to prepare the classic Brazilian drink.

“After seeing Taylor Mead’s diaries I can’t look around myself anymore. There is so much to see! So now I sit with my back to...

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.