Jonas Mekas Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

Part of the series of Travel Songs by Jonas Mekas.

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

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

Mekas lived in SoHo for a long time, and the towers naturally kept popping up: when he would film his friends on the street, hippie happenings on...

This piece had its world premiere as the opening film of the Hans Richter Tribute at Cinema Arsenal in the summer of 2003. The nine minutes of film...

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

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

The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York. This...

Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas on the occasion of his 2002 retrospective in Paris (for his 80th birthday). Through film clips and interviews, Mekas...

Elvis Presley performance at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on Saturday June 10, 1972, the concert, and the subsequent album, were...

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.

A very rare film "manifesto" by Mekas made in 1968 in New York, in the activist spirit of positive revolutionary change; his source for inspiration...

Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno.

A tiny part of our homage for the minors master.

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams...