Jonas Mekas Movies

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...

A film tribute to the inspirational Jonas Mekas.

A narrative presented non-chronologically of Jonas Mekas's time in German forced labour camps and displaced person camps from 1944 to 1949, in which...

Pedro, at Nick Cave's favorite caipirinha bar in São Paolo, gives a lesson in how to prepare the classic Brazilian drink.

Jonas Mekas films the inside of the Cinematheque Française. Especially while running. Part of the cycle of the First 40.

This was filmed on November 1, 1997 at Anthology Film Archives during a tribute to Joseph Beuys. Nam June Paik destroys a piano.

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

"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....

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

This film has to do with the early years of my daughter Oona, when she was three or four years old

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

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...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

A short film portrait of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, talking about the Buddha and the meaning of life.

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

In 2008, Andrew Lampert, employed as the film archivist of Anthology Film Archives, endeavored to ask Jonas Mekas, its legendary and charismatic...

Filmed in 1967 (camera: Gideon Bachmann), edited in 2009. I exit Chelsea Hotel and proceed towards Seventh Avenue where I catch a taxi. From 1967 to...

A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.

Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.

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