Jonas Mekas Movies

As I was preparing the soundtrack from my film As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, I was video-taping myself doing it....

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

The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.

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

Part Two of John Zorn's COBRA (see April 16 for Part One).

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...

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 .

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...

This was taped on the last day of the 20th Century, while having my last espresso of the century at Cremcafe, Second Avenue. I talk about the 20th...

"There I am, I am treated with the First Class ticket. Evening. But all the businessmen are already sleeping. I can’t sleep. I discover a bar....

Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

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

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

A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.

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

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

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

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...