Jonas Mekas Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

"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....

A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.

An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress.

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

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