Jonas Mekas Movies

Clip from Walden.

Part of Jonas Mekas' 365 days series, Mekas takes a walk in a winter storm and meets two strangers trying to save a stuck sparrow.

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents...

Images from two trips to Japan, 1983 and 1991. With music – percussion – by Dalius Naujokaitis. A song, or maybe a duet between images...

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...

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

Jonas Mekas' "Cinématon" No. 1590, directed by Gérard Courant on December 14, 1992, in Paris, France.

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

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...

The immediately recognisable voice and sweet wistful words of the late legend of the avantgarde, Jonas Mekas, is heard over the images of an imagined...

This was taped on the last day of the 20th Century, while having my last espresso of the century at Cremcafe, Second Avenue. I talk about the 20th...

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...

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...

This was filmed in the Bronx on July 17, 1993. It includes writings on train passage walls created by many classic graffiti artists of c. 1993...

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...

From the diaires This was taped during the editing of my film As I WasMoving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. It shows how I work,...

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are...

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

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

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