Jonas Mekas Movies

The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after he first began working with video as well...

Jonas Mekas transforms footage of the Ringling Brothers Circus into a rapid-fire montage set to music, structured in four segments that highlight...

This documentary cracks open the meticulously constructed façade of Andy Warhol, exposing the complex figure behind the soup cans and...

The film documents an encounter at 202 Blvd Saint-Germain, in a cafe underneath Apollinaire's last place of residence. Jean-Jacques Lebel gives Jonas...

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...

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel.

Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exceptional participation of Ultraviolet,...

In the 1960s, beat poet and experimental filmmaker Piero Heliczer helped shape New American Cinema, and was enmeshed with iconic filmmaker Andy...

A newsreel of Jonas Mekas shooting his filmed version of The Brig on the set of the Living Theatre production.

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,...

Friends and colleagues (including Yoko Ono and Merce Cunningham) of Nam June Paik share their thoughts about the groundbreaking multimedia artist in...

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...

Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs. Along the way he...

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....

This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew...

An experimental short by Beth B. It consists of rapidly intercut close-ups of talking heads reading statements from a Sigmund Freud case history;...

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Jonas Mekas reflects on a 1966 trip to Avignon that offered solace during a period of personal crisis. Combining diary texts read by Angus MacLise...

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

"A Mixtape for Stom" is an intimate documentary portrait of Japanese experimental filmmaker Stom Sogo (1975–2012), whose frenetic Super-8mm...