Jonas Mekas Movies
- 2021
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground6.862021HD
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd...
- 1966
The Love Merchant
The Love Merchant4.91966HD
Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 1992
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)5.81992HD
The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978.
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life8.21986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV6.92023HD
The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an...
- 1978
Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
- 1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol7.31990HD
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture....
- 2014
River of Fundament
River of Fundament6.22014HD
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...
- 1972
Imagine
Imagine71972HD
A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John's historic 'Imagine'...
- 1990
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections6.51990HD
This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to...
- 1999
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography5.21999HD
Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late sixties and early seventies, I had the fortune...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.52013HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 2013
What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?6.42013HD
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.6492000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol52015HD
Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life.
- 2017
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance82017HD
In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signature diaristic style. Mixing the...
- 2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory8.62022HD
Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a...
- 2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis6.6252007HD
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...