Jonas Mekas Filmes

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

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

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

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

Jonas Mekas transforms footage of the Ringling Brothers Circus into a rapid-fire montage set to music, structured in four segments that highlight...

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are...

Video diary film by Jonas Mekas, premiered at the British Film Institute on December 5, 2017.

In late 1966 I visited Stan Brakhage in Rollinsville, Colorado. This is a portrait of Stan at home, with his family, his animals, and the...

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...

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

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

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside. The...

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,...

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

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...

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas on the occasion of his 2002 retrospective in Paris (for his 80th birthday). Through film clips and interviews, Mekas...

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

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Jonas, Birgit and Anja are leaving for the Brooklyn Bridge. By taxi, buying beer, drinking in the street, joking, running, dancing on the bridge. It...

“Drawing on his personal archives, Mekas has assembled a Fluxus vaudeville starring Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, and the late Nam June Paik. Most of...