Jonas Mekas Movies

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Avila in 1967, this short records his impressions of the city, inspired by Meher Baba’s teaching...

Jonas Mekas visit. Harry comes by before Ricky visit. 1. 12 p.m. April 15th -- Jonas dares to come by but won't talk. I tape him not with set up --...

I made this video June 23, 2001, as a letter for my good friend Penny Arcade who some days earlier had asked me why I love New York. I truly love New...

A lyrical diary film composed of fleeting images of the World Trade Center, filmed over decades as the towers appeared in Jonas Mekas’s...

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.

I close the 365 Day Project and announce the 1001 Nights Project ---HASTA LA VISTA! ---

Scenes from the life and work of independent film-makers. Includes Douglas Gordon, Peter Hutton, Ken Jacobs, Alexander Kluge, Harmony Korine, Peter...

In 1969, Leonardi traveled to the United States to write a book about the New American Cinema. Using a Super-8 camera, he made a film-diary of this...

Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.

This film has to do with the early years of my daughter Oona, when she was three or four years old

Part Two of John Zorn's COBRA (see April 16 for Part One).

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...

In late 1966 I visited Stan Brakhage in Rollinsville, Colorado. This is a portrait of Stan at home, with his family, his animals, and the...

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."

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...

Images from two trips to Japan, 1983 and 1991. With music – percussion – by Dalius Naujokaitis. A song, or maybe a duet between images...

Filmmaker Michael Rogosin's fascinating exploration of the production history behind his father Lionel's groundbreaking documentary, On the Bowery.