Jonas Mekas Movies

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

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

Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

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...

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

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

"There I am, I am treated with the First Class ticket. Evening. But all the businessmen are already sleeping. I can’t sleep. I discover a bar....

Clip from Walden.

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

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

The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.

New York Conversations is a documentary made of varied conversations revolving around cinema in New York. These conversations give us the opportunity...

Jonas, Birgit and Anja are leaving for the Brooklyn Bridge. By taxi, buying beer, drinking in the street, joking, running, dancing on the bridge. It...

Projecting films at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque on Bruce Conner, Andy Warhol and Harry Smith

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

This was filmed on January 24, 1964, during Prof. Oster's demonstration of moiré patterns. He is shown with Salvador Dalí. From the...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas of what art can be. In large part filmed in Venice...

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...

A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in...