Jonas Mekas Movies

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

Summary of the first fifty years Jonas Mekas spent in New York.

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

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

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

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...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Clip from Walden.

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...

This was originally an art installation by Jonas Mekas which was later shown in a single-screen tetraptych.

From the diaires This was taped during the editing of my film As I WasMoving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. It shows how I work,...

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....

The real history of the cinema is the invisible history – history of friends getting together doing the thing the love – for us the...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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...

A record of a journey through Italy, filmed in 1967.

A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the...

Jonas Mekas' video letter to John Hanhardt, in which he declines an offer for Anthology to be taken on by the Guggenheim, insisting that they must...