Jonas Mekas Movies

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

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

Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.

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

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait, Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian, their heads rotating in radiant...

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 was filmed on January 24, 1964, during Prof. Oster's demonstration of moiré patterns. He is shown with Salvador Dalí. From the...

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

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...

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...

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

Four-part video made in 2003 and 2004. The first two parts were presented at the Venice Biennale of 2003 as part of the Utopia Station project. An...

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 record of a journey through Italy, filmed in 1967.

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...

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

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

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.