Jonas Mekas Movies

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...

A video record of a mental and physical journey through 5,000 years of Egypt at the End of History; an attempt to reconnect with the Source, with...

The real history of the cinema is the invisible history – history of friends getting together doing the thing the love – for us the...

Part of the series of Travel Songs by Jonas Mekas.

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

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander...

One hour with a women's drumming group led by Layne Redmond, who has devoted her life to reviving the ancient Mediterranean tradition of women's...

"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....

Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.

Summary of the first fifty years Jonas Mekas spent in New York.

A document of a Living Theater performance in Cassis, France, this piece was filmed in 1966 but only edited and released in 2002, with a newly...

Consists of images of the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum in May of 1971. It also includes a George Maciunas dumpling party on 80 Wooster...

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

Two artists, whose work was constrained during the Soviet era, fled to New York. There, they met with their guru Jonas Mekas, the creator of...

In 1966 I came up upon a book of Meher Baba, the Indian guru/scientist, in which he said that there are three great holy places in Europe: Avila,...

For some twenty years Mars Bar, on the corner of First Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer and...

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