Jonas Mekas

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

“A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video ...

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

Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old ...

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world’s most awarded vodka ...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, through various locations during the shooting of ...

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and ...

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

During the course of a single winter’s day, January 16, 1966, Jonas Mekas captured impressionistic glimpses of people playing and working in ...

This was filmed on October 9, 1972 in Syracuse, N.Y., on John Lennon’s Birthday; during Lennon/Yoko Ono concert at Madison Square Garden, ...

Andy Warhol at the Village Gate, June 7, 1966. Andy videotaping John Kennedy Jr. and Anthony Radziwill at Andy’s estate, 1971, in Montauk, ...

With Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Ray Bremser, Le Roi Jones, Peter Orlovsky, this film takes place in the Living Theater, 1958.

This piece had its world premiere as the opening film of the Hans Richter Tribute at Cinema Arsenal in the summer of 2003. The nine minutes of ...

The title comes from a poem of a German poet, Heine. The 9/11 event was so beyond my comprehension – you can understand and react to a death of ...

In 1971, Jonas Mekas was permitted by the Soviet authorities to visit his mother in Lithuania whom he had not seen for 27 years. On his return ...

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas ...

A short lecture by Jonas Mekas

Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late sixties and early seventies, I had the fortune to ...

Scenes from the life and work at Anthology Film Archives. Much of the footage in this video was shot by Auguste Varkalis.

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called “God Running”. Part of the cycle of The First 40.

Reflections on my 1966 trip to Avignon that helped me to survive a deep crisis I was going through. Texts from my diaries of that period on the ...

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

On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono’s art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at ...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg’s apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of ...

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

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

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 ...

Imperfect 3-Image Films | EUA, 1995, 16 mm, pb-cor, 6′ … MOCAtv Presents ‘In Focus’ – Jonas Mekas – The ...