Jonas Mekas Movies

"Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas / Version 1": this is the last filmed interview of Jonas Mekas. This is a last gift from Jonas to us.

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...

The video traces the history of the Factory, describes the activities that took place in it, and the historical context. Actual locations are shown...

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

"In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't they...

With Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Ray Bremser, Le Roi Jones, Peter Orlovsky, this film takes place in the Living Theater, 1958.

The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.

An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.

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

I made this little film portrait of Dreyer on the 17th of September 1965, in New York. He said he was very interested in what I was trying to do in...

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

“Drawing on his personal archives, Mekas has assembled a Fluxus vaudeville starring Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, and the late Nam June Paik. Most of...

A newsreel of Jonas Mekas shooting his filmed version of The Brig on the set of the Living Theatre production.

Provides a rare glimpse into the world of George and Mike Kuchar, underground filmmaking brothers from the Bronx. Get to know the Kuchars, casually...

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

We came to the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar to present Jack Smith's film Flaming Creatures, although we were not included among the official guests....

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

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.

Co-director Robert Margolis stars as Robert, an actor who may or may not be himself in this intense and often hilarious film about acting, aging and...

A film tribute to the inspirational Jonas Mekas.