Jonas Mekas Movies

A record of a journey through Italy, filmed in 1967.

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...

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

After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could...

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...

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

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

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...

This was taped in March 1990 at my 491 Broadway place. It is with Allen Ginsberg, Gozo Yashimasu, Leo Adams, others. From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I...

A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in...

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

Two artists, whose work was constrained during the Soviet era, fled to New York. There, they met with their guru Jonas Mekas, the creator of...

A video record of a mental and physical journey through 5,000 years of Egypt at the End of History; an attempt to reconnect with the Source, with...

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

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

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

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for...

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

Filmmaker Michael Rogosin's fascinating exploration of the production history behind his father Lionel's groundbreaking documentary, On the Bowery.

New York Conversations is a documentary made of varied conversations revolving around cinema in New York. These conversations give us the opportunity...