Jonas Mekas Movies

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

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

I close the 365 Day Project and announce the 1001 Nights Project ---HASTA LA VISTA! ---

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...

Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.

Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery...

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are...

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

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

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...

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the...

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

Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exceptional participation of Ultraviolet,...

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties,...

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

Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...

An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.