Jonas Mekas Movies

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". Part of the cycle of The First 40.

I filmed the young Bibi Hansen in 1966 as a screen test for a film I wanted to make out the life of a young girl growing up in New York. The film was...

The film documents an encounter at 202 Blvd Saint-Germain, in a cafe underneath Apollinaire's last place of residence. Jean-Jacques Lebel gives Jonas...

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

A short film from Jonas Mekas depicting an afternoon in New York of people joining in singing "Hare Hare"

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.

A meditative tribute to Verdi’s masterpiece and an homage to beloved filmmaker Jonas Mekas.

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...

Clip from Walden.

An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress.

“After seeing Taylor Mead’s diaries I can’t look around myself anymore. There is so much to see! So now I sit with my back to...

Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...

Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery...

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

Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life.

Documentary on Jonas Mekas and the American avant-garde cinema, with several new interviews and appearances and over 100 excerpts and examples....

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

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

In February 2004, after 30 years of my life in SoHo, I made a decision to leave SoHo and move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This video is about what it...