Jonas Mekas Movies

This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew...

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...

Diary Entry: Father and Daughter (Shiva and Rumple) March 7, 2001.

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,...

In 1963, a magazine called Show commissioned me to make a promotion film for them. I conceived the film as a film periodical devoted to the arts. I...

For some time I had been thinking about doing something with my Paris footage, of which I have many many hours. So [curator Danièle...

The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978.

Four-part video made in 2003 and 2004. The first two parts were presented at the Venice Biennale of 2003 as part of the Utopia Station project. An...

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

Opening of the Internet Saga Pavilion. At Palazzo Foscari Contarini, Venice. May 6 and 7, 2015.

The title comes from a poem of a German poet, Heine. The 9/11 event was so beyond my comprehension – you can understand and react to a death...

International Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante, from Madagascar, poet and publisher; Storm De Hirsch,...

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

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

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...

We came to the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar to present Jack Smith's film Flaming Creatures, although we were not included among the official guests....

An essayistic film journey with Jonas Mekas, the living legend of avant-garde cinema—who, at 90 years old, still dances and sings, wiry and...

John Zorn with his band at Anthology Film Archves performs COBRA, part one.

As I was preparing the soundtrack from my film As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, I was video-taping myself doing it....

This was taped in March 1990 at my 491 Broadway place. It is with Allen Ginsberg, Gozo Yashimasu, Leo Adams, others.