Jonas Mekas Movies

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....

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...

A video record of a mental and physical journey through 5,000 years of Egypt at the End of History; an attempt to reconnect with the Source, with...

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

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

A narrative presented non-chronologically of Jonas Mekas's time in German forced labour camps and displaced person camps from 1944 to 1949, in which...

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

Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery...

The video traces the history of the Factory, describes the activities that took place in it, and the historical context. Actual locations are shown...

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

A tribute to Jonas Mekas' late friend and patron, Jerome Hill. Filmed on 16mm across three visits to Hill’s estate in Cassis, France, the film...

An autobiographical vignette, this is a stop in Marseilles in the summer of 1966. I am sharing a croissant with a cat while boyan singing, presenting...

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...

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

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

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

New York Conversations is a documentary made of varied conversations revolving around cinema in New York. These conversations give us the opportunity...

An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress.