Jonas Mekas Movies

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams...

During the course of a single winter’s day, January 16, 1966, Jonas Mekas captured impressionistic glimpses of people playing and working in...

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...

A record of a journey through Italy, filmed in 1967.

In 1971, Jonas Mekas was permitted by the Soviet authorities to visit his mother in Lithuania whom he had not seen for 27 years. On his return trip,...

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

Consists of images of the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum in May of 1971. It also includes a George Maciunas dumpling party on 80 Wooster...

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

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

Jonas Mekas' video letter to John Hanhardt, in which he declines an offer for Anthology to be taken on by the Guggenheim, insisting that they must...

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel.

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

During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle,...

A film by Alfredo Leonardi.

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

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

Filmmaker Michael Rogosin's fascinating exploration of the production history behind his father Lionel's groundbreaking documentary, On the Bowery.

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...

Jerome Hill had a little outdoor theater on the shore of the Mediterranean. Usually he brought over some musicians, like the Julliard Quartet. But in...

Footage of Orchard Street from 1953 and 1975, put together for an opening of James Fuentes Gallery in 2010 on Delancey Street. You see the commercial...