Jonas Mekas Movies

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...

Made 1965 / 1983 With Kenneth King and Phoebe Neville. "Kenneth King's CUP/SAUCER/TWO DANCERS/RADIO (1964) is an essay in Pop Art style, in which all...

A short lecture by Jonas Mekas

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are...

In 1966 I came up upon a book of Meher Baba, the Indian guru/scientist, in which he said that there are three great holy places in Europe: Avila,...

In the 1960s, beat poet and experimental filmmaker Piero Heliczer helped shape New American Cinema, and was enmeshed with iconic filmmaker Andy...

Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography...

Jonas Mekas recites poems of his, both in English and Lithuanian. Exclusive Mekas interview by the poet Sparrow. The legendary poet-film critic and...

I made this video June 23, 2001, as a letter for my good friend Penny Arcade who some days earlier had asked me why I love New York. I truly love New...

I Had Nowhere To Go is based on Jonas Mekas’s diary. It’s been over 70 years since he left his village in Lithuania to escape Nazi...

In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus...

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

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

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

Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...

On January 1st of 2007, Mekas began his epic "365" project inspired by the Italian poet Petrarca and his Canzoniere. Releasing one film for every day...

I am in Provence near Mt. Ventoux. I remember the poet Petrarca walking on Mt. Ventoux and carrying with him a volume of St. Augustine’s...

The real history of the cinema is the invisible history – history of friends getting together doing the thing the love – for us the...

"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."

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...