Jonas Mekas

Jonas, Birgit and Anja are leaving for the Brooklyn Bridge. By taxi, buying beer, drinking in the street, joking, running, dancing on the bridge. ...

A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas’ trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth.

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

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the ...

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

Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas – one of the ...

The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978.

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

Peter Sempel’s masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno.

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

Jonas Mekas recites poems of his, both in English and Lithuanian. Exclusive Mekas interview by the poet Sparrow. The legendary poet-film critic ...

An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop ...

Documentary on Andy Warhol’s cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art ...

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features ...

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons ...

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the ...

Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera ...

Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.