Jonas Mekas Movies

Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old...

The film tells about the famous Lithuanian director Vytautas Žalakevičius. The film contains many excerpts from the director's films and...

The story of Tiny Tim’s improbable rise to stardom is the ultimate fairytale - and so is that of his downfall. For a brief time, the shy and...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, through various locations during the shooting of his...

An experimental short by Beth B. It consists of rapidly intercut close-ups of talking heads reading statements from a Sigmund Freud case history;...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signature diaristic style. Mixing the...

An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most...

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What...

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

Filmed by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building, “Empire” explores the passage of time without the use of characters...

Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag's fascinating documentary follows Hungarian poet, playwright and activist István Eörsi on a trip to the streets of...

Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late sixties and early seventies, I had the fortune...

Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...

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

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

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

Self Discovery for Social Survival is a collaborative surf and music film produced by Brooklyn based record label, Mexican Summer and Pilgrim Surf +...