Jonas Mekas Movies

Short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler, Peter Sempel.

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

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

The video traces the history of the Factory, describes the activities that took place in it, and the historical context. Actual locations are shown...

During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle,...

From the diaries. This was filmed on July 1, 2004. From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for my new,...

"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....

Shortfilm in which Mekas follows a band on a boat ride on Easter Day.

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

Jonas Mekas documents Timothy Leary’s Millbrook estate in the wake of a police raid, juxtaposing serene images of the property with audio of...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

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

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...

"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."

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

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....