Jonas Mekas Movies

Filmed in 1967 (camera: Gideon Bachmann), edited in 2009. I exit Chelsea Hotel and proceed towards Seventh Avenue where I catch a taxi. From 1967 to...

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...

Made 1965 / 1983 With Kenneth King and Phoebe Neville. "Kenneth King's CUP/SAUCER/TWO DANCERS/RADIO (1964) is an essay in Pop Art style, in which all...

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...

Gozo Yoshimasu, a pioneer of Japanese contemporary poetry, pursued the vision of his ally, the late Jonas Mekas in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The time...

The video traces the history of the Factory, describes the activities that took place in it, and the historical context. Actual locations are shown...

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...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Assisi in 1967, this short documents his time in the city known for its spiritual associations. The...

During the course of a single winter’s day, January 16, 1966, Jonas Mekas captured impressionistic glimpses of people playing and working in...

This was filmed on January 24, 1964, during Prof. Oster's demonstration of moiré patterns. He is shown with Salvador Dalí. From the...

Diary Entry: Father and Daughter (Shiva and Rumple) March 7, 2001.

Alexander Kluge - October 22 2016

Short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler, Peter Sempel.

George Maciunas arranged a boat trip up the Hudson River on July 7, 1971. Many of the Fluxus friends joined the trip including Yoko Ono, John Lennon,...

Portrait of the architect Raimund Abraham.

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel.

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

John Zorn with his band at Anthology Film Archves performs COBRA, part one.

"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."

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...