Jonas Mekas Movies

Filmed by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building, “Empire” explores the passage of time without the use of characters...

This is footage from an unfinished film biography of Jackie Onasis and Lee Radziwill that I was in the process of making in 1972, but which was never...

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

An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.

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 tells about the famous Lithuanian director Vytautas Žalakevičius. The film contains many excerpts from the director's films and...

We came to the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar to present Jack Smith's film Flaming Creatures, although we were not included among the official guests....

Diary Entry: Father and Daughter (Shiva and Rumple) March 7, 2001.

Imperfect 3-Image Films | EUA, 1995, 16 mm, pb-cor, 6' ... MOCAtv Presents 'In Focus' - Jonas Mekas - The Artist's Studio by MOCA 9,101 .

A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in...

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...

In May 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famous Bed-In For Peace event. It was attended by many of their close friends, including Timothy...

The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.

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...

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to...

Projecting films at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque on Bruce Conner, Andy Warhol and Harry Smith

This piece had its world premiere as the opening film of the Hans Richter Tribute at Cinema Arsenal in the summer of 2003. The nine minutes of film...

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...

This is footage of Elvis Presley's last performance in New York on June 9th, 1972. It is preceded by footage I shot in Vienna a few years earlier. It...