Jonas Mekas Movies

"There I am, I am treated with the First Class ticket. Evening. But all the businessmen are already sleeping. I can’t sleep. I discover a bar....

A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.

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

One hour with a women's drumming group led by Layne Redmond, who has devoted her life to reviving the ancient Mediterranean tradition of women's...

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

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

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

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...

From the diaries. This was filmed on July 1, 2004. From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for my new,...

During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle,...

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

"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."

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...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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....

A record of a journey through Italy, filmed in 1967.

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

Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...