Jonas Mekas Movies

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside. The...

Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

This was filmed July 1-4, 1965 in Millbrook, at the estate of Timothy Leary. It is with Baba Ramdass and house guests. Sound: me talking about...

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...

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...

I filmed the young Bibi Hansen in 1966 as a screen test for a film I wanted to make out the life of a young girl growing up in New York. The film was...

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

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

Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until...

In 1950 Jerome Hill went to Zurich with the intention of making a film about Dr. Carl G. Jung. The project was abandoned when Hill decided that Jung...

Portrait of the architect Raimund Abraham.

Jonas Mekas' "Cinématon" No. 1590, directed by Gérard Courant on December 14, 1992, in Paris, France.

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...

An autobiographical diary film assembled from unused footage shot between 1960 and 2000, interwoven with reflections, music, and glimpses of family,...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels in 1981, this short captures scenes from Stockholm. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation...

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

Jonas Mekas came to Paris in October 1997 for the video release of his film Walden. I filmed the event and its twists and turns at the...

"Occasionally I join my music friends Dalius Naujo and Kenny Wollesen at Zebulon, a French music bistro in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They are great...