Jonas Mekas Movies

Alexander Kluge - October 22 2016

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

Jerome Hill had a little outdoor theater on the shore of the Mediterranean. Usually he brought over some musicians, like the Julliard Quartet. But in...

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...

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

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

The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.

This was filmed at Anthology Film Archives on May 31, 2000.

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...

From the diaries. This was filmed on July 1, 2004.

Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.

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

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....

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

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,...

This was filmed July 1-4, 1965 in Millbrook, at the estate of Timothy Leary. It is with Baba Ramdass and house guests. Sound: me talking about...

Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

In 1969, Leonardi traveled to the United States to write a book about the New American Cinema. Using a Super-8 camera, he made a film-diary of this...

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

This was originally an art installation by Jonas Mekas which was later shown in a single-screen tetraptych.