Jonas Mekas Movies

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

In February 2004, after 30 years of my life in SoHo, I made a decision to leave SoHo and move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This video is about what it...

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.

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

A film by Alfredo Leonardi.

For some twenty years Mars Bar, on the corner of First Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer and...

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 trip,...

A narrative presented non-chronologically of Jonas Mekas's time in German forced labour camps and displaced person camps from 1944 to 1949, in which...

A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the...

Alexander Kluge - October 22 2016

In 1950 Jerome Hill went to Zurich with the intention of making a film about Dr. Carl G. Jung. The project was abandoned when Hill decided that Jung...

A portrait of Jonas Mekas.

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York. This...

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 and in...

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

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...

Images from two trips to Japan, 1983 and 1991. With music – percussion – by Dalius Naujokaitis. A song, or maybe a duet between images...

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