Jonas Mekas Movies

Diane the Zebra Woman follows four women’s misadventures through the streets of New York City in 1962. All played by Flame Schon, the...

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

A film tribute to the inspirational Jonas Mekas.

A very rare film "manifesto" by Mekas made in 1968 in New York, in the activist spirit of positive revolutionary change; his source for inspiration...

"In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't they...

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the...

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

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...

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...

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

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

A portrait movie of the Godfather of American avantgarde cinema. Through material filmed primarily in the 1990s by both the directors and Jonas Mekas...

Created by Anthology’s Archivist John Klacsmann, the visual track of Elegy for J.M. is the result of an encoding malfunction while preparing a...

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

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...

An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes...

A meditative tribute to Verdi’s masterpiece and an homage to beloved filmmaker Jonas Mekas.

In February 2004, after 30 years of my life in SoHo, I made a decision to leave SoHo and move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This video is about what it...

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016