Jonas Mekas Movies

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to the Soviet Union in 1971, this short presents a personal record of Moscow. The footage was later...

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

An experimental short by Beth B. It consists of rapidly intercut close-ups of talking heads reading statements from a Sigmund Freud case history;...

Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Assisi in 1967, this short documents his time in the city known for its spiritual associations. The...

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

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...

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

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016

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

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

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

Documentary on Jonas Mekas and the American avant-garde cinema, with several new interviews and appearances and over 100 excerpts and examples....

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Avila in 1967, this short records his impressions of the city, inspired by Meher Baba’s teaching...

A short lecture by Jonas Mekas

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...

Jonas Mekas shows us the five Bolex cameras that he used to make all his films, 1950-2000. They also helped other filmmakers (Jack Smith, Gregory...

An essayistic film journey with Jonas Mekas, the living legend of avant-garde cinema—who, at 90 years old, still dances and sings, wiry and...

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