Jonas Mekas Movies

Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

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, August 30,...

Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of...

Filmed by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building, “Empire” explores the passage of time without the use of characters...

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas of what art can be. In large part filmed in Venice...

Jonas Mekas’s film captures The Living Theatre’s stage production of The Brig, an unflinching portrait of life inside a U.S. Marine Corps...

During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...

A film tribute to the inspirational Jonas Mekas.

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

This was filmed on November 1, 1997 at Anthology Film Archives during a tribute to Joseph Beuys. Nam June Paik destroys a piano. From the cycle of...

The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.

This documentary cracks open the meticulously constructed façade of Andy Warhol, exposing the complex figure behind the soup cans and...

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What...

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 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 his close...

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after he first began working with video as well...

"Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas / Version 1": this is the last filmed interview of Jonas Mekas. This is a last gift from Jonas to us.

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...