Jonas Mekas Movies

A tribute to Jonas Mekas' late friend and patron, Jerome Hill. Filmed on 16mm across three visits to Hill’s estate in Cassis, France, the film...

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

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...

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

This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew...

In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signature diaristic style. Mixing the...

Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

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...

The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.

In 1969, Leonardi traveled to the United States to write a book about the New American Cinema. Using a Super-8 camera, he made a film-diary of this...

An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress.

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

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

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...

Summary of the first fifty years Jonas Mekas spent in New York.

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...

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

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016