Jonas Mekas Movies

Consists of images of the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum in May of 1971. It also includes a George Maciunas dumpling party on 80 Wooster...

My wedding gift to Robert Haller and Amy Greenfield. The publishers of the Anthology Film Archives are very happy with the making this farce.

I Had Nowhere To Go is based on Jonas Mekas’s diary. It’s been over 70 years since he left his village in Lithuania to escape Nazi...

Created by Anthology’s Archivist John Klacsmann, the visual track of Elegy for J.M. is the result of an encoding malfunction while preparing a...

A meditative tribute to Verdi’s masterpiece and an homage to beloved filmmaker Jonas Mekas.

In 1967, I decided to visit Avila where I had an enlightening experience.

Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until...

Reflections on my 1966 trip to Avignon that helped me to survive a deep crisis I was going through. Texts from my diaries of that period on the...

A portrait of Jonas Mekas.

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

Jonas, Birgit and Anja are leaving for the Brooklyn Bridge. By taxi, buying beer, drinking in the street, joking, running, dancing on the bridge. It...

Four-part video made in 2003 and 2004. The first two parts were presented at the Venice Biennale of 2003 as part of the Utopia Station project. An...

I made this little film portrait of Dreyer on the 17th of September 1965, in New York. He said he was very interested in what I was trying to do 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...

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". Part of the cycle of The First 40.

Clip from Walden.

The film tells about the famous Lithuanian director Vytautas Žalakevičius. The film contains many excerpts from the director's films and...

Images from two trips to Japan, 1983 and 1991. With music – percussion – by Dalius Naujokaitis. A song, or maybe a duet between images...

Mekas lived in SoHo for a long time, and the towers naturally kept popping up: when he would film his friends on the street, hippie happenings on...