Jonas Mekas Movies

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...

This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close...

Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag's fascinating documentary follows Hungarian poet, playwright and activist István Eörsi on a trip to the streets of...

An experimental short by Beth B. It consists of rapidly intercut close-ups of talking heads reading statements from a Sigmund Freud case history;...

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

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

A short film from Jonas Mekas depicting an afternoon in New York of people joining in singing "Hare Hare"

The short film is a montage of sped up clips of The Ringling Brothers Circus in action set to a musical track. The film is separated into four...

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

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

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old...

Two artists, whose work was constrained during the Soviet era, fled to New York. There, they met with their guru Jonas Mekas, the creator of...

A video record of a mental and physical journey through 5,000 years of Egypt at the End of History; an attempt to reconnect with the Source, with...

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.

In 1971, Jonas Mekas was permitted by the Soviet authorities to visit his mother in Lithuania whom he had not seen for 27 years. On his return trip,...

A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in...

Alexander Kluge - October 22 2016

New York Conversations is a documentary made of varied conversations revolving around cinema in New York. These conversations give us the opportunity...

In 1950 Jerome Hill went to Zurich with the intention of making a film about Dr. Carl G. Jung. The project was abandoned when Hill decided that Jung...