Jonas Mekas Movies

In 2008, Andrew Lampert, employed as the film archivist of Anthology Film Archives, endeavored to ask Jonas Mekas, its legendary and charismatic...

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A meditative tribute to Verdi’s masterpiece and an homage to beloved filmmaker Jonas Mekas.

Live radio recording with Italian RAI3 during the Locarno Film Festival.

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...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Avila in 1967, this short records his impressions of the city, inspired by Meher Baba’s teaching...

A short film portrait of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, talking about the Buddha and the meaning of life.

The last, and previously unreleased, filmed letters exchanged between Jonas Mekas, from his home in Brooklyn, and José Luis Guerin, from his...

This is footage from an unfinished film biography of Jackie Onasis and Lee Radziwill that I was in the process of making in 1972, but which was never...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside. The...

Imperfect 3-Image Films | EUA, 1995, 16 mm, pb-cor, 6' ... MOCAtv Presents 'In Focus' - Jonas Mekas - The Artist's Studio by MOCA 9,101 .

This was taped on the last day of the 20th Century, while having my last espresso of the century at Cremcafe, Second Avenue. I talk about the 20th...

Footage from 1964-1968 that did not find its way into the Walden reels is joined in this classic period piece. Mostly centered in New York, it also...

A tiny part of our (homonymous) homage for the minors master.

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

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

Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait, Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian, their heads rotating in radiant...

Jonas Mekas shows us the five Bolex cameras that he used to make all his films, 1950-2000. They also helped other filmmakers (Jack Smith, Gregory...

In a mimetic approach to that of the great documentarian, Dubosc delivers notes and fragments of their meetings between 1991 and 1992 in New York. In...

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...