Jonas Mekas Movies

In May 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famous Bed-In For Peace event. It was attended by many of their close friends, including Timothy...

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

Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.

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

In May 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famous Bed-In For Peace event. It was attended by many of their close friends, including Timothy...

For some time I had been thinking about doing something with my Paris footage, of which I have many many hours. So [curator Danièle...

John Zorn with his band at Anthology Film Archves performs COBRA, part one.

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

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

Filmed in 1967 (camera: Gideon Bachmann), edited in 2009. I exit Chelsea Hotel and proceed towards Seventh Avenue where I catch a taxi. From 1967 to...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Patti Smith improvises a song.

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

"STREET SONGS is a 1966 performance, in France, of a section of the Living Theater's 'Mysteries and Smaller Pieces.' Based on a chance-determined...

I made this little film portrait of Dreyer on the 17th of September 1965, in New York. He said he was very interested in what I was trying to do in...

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

The film documents an encounter at 202 Blvd Saint-Germain, in a cafe underneath Apollinaire's last place of residence. Jean-Jacques Lebel gives Jonas...

A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the...