Jonas Mekas Movies

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

A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.

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

Shortfilm in which Mekas follows a band on a boat ride on Easter Day.

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

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

This was taped in March 1990 at my 491 Broadway place. It is with Allen Ginsberg, Gozo Yashimasu, Leo Adams, others.

An autobiographical vignette, this is a stop in Marseilles in the summer of 1966. I am sharing a croissant with a cat while boyan singing, presenting...

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

This was taped on the last day of the 20th Century, while having my last espresso of the century at Cremcafe, Second Avenue. I talk about the 20th...

As I was preparing the soundtrack from my film As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, I was video-taping myself doing it....

This was filmed in the Bronx on July 17, 1993. It includes writings on train passage walls created by many classic graffiti artists of c. 1993...

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

This piece had its world premiere as the opening film of the Hans Richter Tribute at Cinema Arsenal in the summer of 2003. The nine minutes of film...

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

This documentary cracks open the meticulously constructed façade of Andy Warhol, exposing the complex figure behind the soup cans and...

Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.