Jonas Mekas Movies

The last, and previously unreleased, filmed letters exchanged between Jonas Mekas, from his home in Brooklyn, and José Luis Guerin, from his...

Gozo Yoshimasu, a pioneer of Japanese contemporary poetry, pursued the vision of his ally, the late Jonas Mekas in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The time...

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

Filmed in 1950 soon after Jonas Mekas arrived in New York, this short documents everyday life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was the first film he...

This is footage from an unfinished film biography of Jackie Onasis and Lee Radziwill that I was in the process of making in 1972, but which was never...

Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until...

The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.

Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an...

Jonas Mekas films the inside of the Cinematheque Française. Especially while running. Part of the cycle of the First 40.

Documentary on Jonas Mekas and the American avant-garde cinema, with several new interviews and appearances and over 100 excerpts and examples....

Barbara, a young woman consumed by despair, contemplates suicide, while a man she meets in a church and a married couple struggle to persuade her...

This was filmed on August 18, 1972 at the house of Lee Radziwill in Montauk, Long Island. The film includes Elia Kazan, Barbara Loden, Peter Beard,...

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...

"Occasionally I join my music friends Dalius Naujo and Kenny Wollesen at Zebulon, a French music bistro in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They are great...

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

Jonas Mekas shows us the five Bolex cameras that he used to make all his films, 1950-2000. They also helped other filmmakers (Jack Smith, Gregory...

George Maciunas arranged a boat trip up the Hudson River on July 7, 1971. Many of the Fluxus friends joined the trip including Yoko Ono, John Lennon,...