Jonas Mekas Movies

Part Two of John Zorn's COBRA (see April 16 for Part One).

One hour with a women's drumming group led by Layne Redmond, who has devoted her life to reviving the ancient Mediterranean tradition of women's...

In February 2004, after 30 years of my life in SoHo, I made a decision to leave SoHo and move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This video is about what it...

On January 17th, downtown New york at PROTOTYPE Festival, I attended N.Y. premiere of a Lithuanian opera

Scenes from the life and work of independent film-makers. Includes Douglas Gordon, Peter Hutton, Ken Jacobs, Alexander Kluge, Harmony Korine, Peter...

"It came to my mind that I should try and locate George Capsis"

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...

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

The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.

The title comes from a poem of a German poet, Heine. The 9/11 event was so beyond my comprehension – you can understand and react to a death...

The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978.

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for...

Gidon Kremer, along with his chamber orchestra, the Kremerata Baltica, wanted to build a bridge between different art forms and musical worlds,...

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

Part of Jonas Mekas' 365 days series, Mekas takes a walk in a winter storm and meets two strangers trying to save a stuck sparrow.

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

Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.

This was filmed on November 1, 1997 at Anthology Film Archives during a tribute to Joseph Beuys. Nam June Paik destroys a piano. From the cycle of...

This film has to do with the early years of my daughter Oona, when she was three or four years old

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.