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...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...

This was originally an art installation by Jonas Mekas which was later shown in a single-screen tetraptych.

Pedro, at Nick Cave's favorite caipirinha bar in São Paolo, gives a lesson in how to prepare the classic Brazilian drink.

Opening of the Internet Saga Pavilion. At Palazzo Foscari Contarini, Venice. May 6 and 7, 2015.

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

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

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....

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

Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

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

The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York. This...

Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

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

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.