Jonas Mekas Movies

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents...

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

A short film portrait of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, talking about the Buddha and the meaning of life.

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

Two artists, whose work was constrained during the Soviet era, fled to New York. There, they met with their guru Jonas Mekas, the creator of...

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...

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

Imperfect 3-Image Films | EUA, 1995, 16 mm, pb-cor, 6' ... MOCAtv Presents 'In Focus' - Jonas Mekas - The Artist's Studio by MOCA 9,101 .

For some twenty years Mars Bar, on the corner of First Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer and...

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

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An essayistic film journey with Jonas Mekas, the living legend of avant-garde cinema—who, at 90 years old, still dances and sings, wiry and...

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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...

The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas of what art can be. In large part filmed in Venice...

Jonas Mekas at Zebulon, a music bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, dedicating his 365 day series to Petrarca (1304-1374) the poet who wrote 365 poems to...

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

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