Jonas Mekas Movies

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

The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double...

In 1963, a magazine called Show commissioned me to make a promotion film for them. I conceived the film as a film periodical devoted to the arts. I...

Video diary film by Jonas Mekas, premiered at the British Film Institute on December 5, 2017.

“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...

Part of Jonas Mekas' 365 days series, Mekas takes a walk in a winter storm and meets two strangers trying to save a stuck sparrow.

Portrait of the architect Raimund Abraham.

Jonas Mekas at Zebulon, a music bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, dedicating his 365 day series to Petrarca (1304-1374) the poet who wrote 365 poems to...

For some twenty years Mars Bar, on the corner of First Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer and...

Scenes from the life and work of independent film-makers. Includes Douglas Gordon, Peter Hutton, Ken Jacobs, Alexander Kluge, Harmony Korine, Peter...

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

Opening of the Internet Saga Pavilion. At Palazzo Foscari Contarini, Venice. May 6 and 7, 2015.

A short lecture by Jonas Mekas

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

Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life.

Filmed in Berlin, July 1990. Images of workers taking down the wall and street peddlers selling pieces of it to make a living. From the cycle of...

This is a mini-portrait of one of the legendary figures of the 60s who should be credited for the discovery of the Velvet Underground, for saving Bob...

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

The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.

A portrait movie of the Godfather of American avantgarde cinema. Through material filmed primarily in the 1990s by both the directors and Jonas Mekas...