Jonas Mekas Movies

Filmmaker Michael Rogosin's fascinating exploration of the production history behind his father Lionel's groundbreaking documentary, On the Bowery.

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...

Short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler, Peter Sempel.

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

Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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,...

Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...

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

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

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

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

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

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...