Jonas Mekas Movies

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

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

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

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

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

Four-part video made in 2003 and 2004. The first two parts were presented at the Venice Biennale of 2003 as part of the Utopia Station project. An...

After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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...

"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...

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....

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...

Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

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.

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