Jonas Mekas Movies

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

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for...

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

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

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

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents...

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

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

Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....

Part Two of John Zorn's COBRA (see April 16 for Part One).

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...

On January 17th, downtown New york at PROTOTYPE Festival, I attended N.Y. premiere of a Lithuanian opera

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

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