Jonas Mekas Movies

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...

Screen test for Andy Warhol, 1966

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

This was filmed on August 18, 1972 at the house of Lee Radziwill in Montauk, Long Island. The film includes Elia Kazan, Barbara Loden, Peter Beard,...

Self Discovery for Social Survival is a collaborative surf and music film produced by Brooklyn based record label, Mexican Summer and Pilgrim Surf +...

Documentary on Jonas Mekas and the American avant-garde cinema, with several new interviews and appearances and over 100 excerpts and examples....

I made this video June 23, 2001, as a letter for my good friend Penny Arcade who some days earlier had asked me why I love New York. I truly love New...

Jonas Mekas reflects on summers spent in the late 1960s and early 1970s with Jackie Kennedy, her sister Lee Radziwill, and their families. Blending...

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

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

Jonas Mekas transforms footage of the Ringling Brothers Circus into a rapid-fire montage set to music, structured in four segments that highlight...

Provides a rare glimpse into the world of George and Mike Kuchar, underground filmmaking brothers from the Bronx. Get to know the Kuchars, casually...

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

Diane the Zebra Woman follows four women’s misadventures through the streets of New York City in 1962. All played by Flame Schon, the...

Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel. This fake interview with ‘Lapland’s...

A film tribute to the inspirational Jonas Mekas.

“Drawing on his personal archives, Mekas has assembled a Fluxus vaudeville starring Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, and the late Nam June Paik. Most of...

During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle,...

Jonas Mekas shows us the five Bolex cameras that he used to make all his films, 1950-2000. They also helped other filmmakers (Jack Smith, Gregory...