Jonas Mekas Movies

"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....

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

Shortfilm in which Mekas follows a band on a boat ride on Easter Day.

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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...

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

A record of a journey through Italy, filmed in 1967.

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

Elvis Presley performance at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on Saturday June 10, 1972, the concert, and the subsequent album, were...

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel.

Jonas Mekas' video letter to John Hanhardt, in which he declines an offer for Anthology to be taken on by the Guggenheim, insisting that they must...

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.