Jonas Mekas Movies

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

This is a film made with outtakes from my other films and some found footage. It includes great found footage with monkeys. Sound: Auguste Varkalis...

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

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...

Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery...

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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...

Jonas Mekas documents Timothy Leary’s Millbrook estate in the wake of a police raid, juxtaposing serene images of the property with audio of...

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016

A short lecture by Jonas Mekas

Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.

This was filmed in the Bronx on July 17, 1993. It includes writings on train passage walls created by many classic graffiti artists of c. 1993...

Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...

This was taped on the last day of the 20th Century, while having my last espresso of the century at Cremcafe, Second Avenue. I talk about the 20th...

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

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

As I was preparing the soundtrack from my film As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, I was video-taping myself doing it....

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

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

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