Jonas Mekas Movies

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

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...

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...

Filmed in 1950 soon after Jonas Mekas arrived in New York, this short documents everyday life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was the first film he...

Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until...

An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

Barbara, a young woman consumed by despair, contemplates suicide, while a man she meets in a church and a married couple struggle to persuade her...

A verité portrait of Jonas Mekas making his daily rounds, JONAS shows us the underground impresario attending a peace rally, filming in...

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

Documentary on Jonas Mekas and the American avant-garde cinema, with several new interviews and appearances and over 100 excerpts and examples....

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas on the occasion of his 2002 retrospective in Paris (for his 80th birthday). Through film clips and interviews, Mekas...

"Occasionally I join my music friends Dalius Naujo and Kenny Wollesen at Zebulon, a French music bistro in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They are great...

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

A document of a Living Theater performance in Cassis, France, this piece was filmed in 1966 but only edited and released in 2002, with a newly...

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...

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno.

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

This was filmed on August 18, 1972 at the house of Lee Radziwill in Montauk, Long Island. The film includes Elia Kazan, Barbara Loden, Peter Beard,...