Jonas Mekas

A single static wide shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.

06 de mar. de 1965

05 de nov. de 2000

Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late sixties and early seventies, I had the fortune to s...

12 de out. de 1999

Neste filme, Jonas Mekas narra não só o grande artista pop, Andy Warhol, mas também a excitação social e cultural que girou em torno dele, palpitan...

01 de jun. de 1990

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, through various locations during the shooting of hi...

01 de jan. de 2008

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

22 de fev. de 1986

An ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through wor...

20 de set. de 1964

23 de nov. de 2013

Em um pequeno porto no sul da França, um farol ao mar é fotografado quadro a quadro durante um dia todo, do nascer ao pôr do sol. Embalada pelo bar...

01 de jan. de 1966

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

06 de ago. de 1997

Este filme mostra a volta dos irmãos Jonas e Adolfas Mekas à sua terra natal, Lituânia. Aparentemente, eles deixaram o país no final da Segunda Gue...

30 de ago. de 1996

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and f...

31 de dez. de 2007

Um tributo às vítimas do terremoto Sismo que atingiu o japão no dia onze de março de 2011, onde mais de quinze mil pessoas morreram. Cada diretor c...

04 de nov. de 2011

Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old ac...

15 de dez. de 2011

A short film from Jonas Mekas depicting an afternoon in New York of people joining in singing "Hare Hare"

02 de fev. de 1967

On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the Syr...

09 de out. de 1997

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.

14 de set. de 1976

In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come...

03 de set. de 1965

A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is wort...

28 de fev. de 1961

Reflections on my 1966 trip to Avignon that helped me to survive a deep crisis I was going through. Texts from my diaries of that period on the sou...

03 de jul. de 1998

The Velvet Underground's first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist's Convention, at the Delmonico Hotel, New York, January 14, 1...

14 de jan. de 1966

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.

11 de nov. de 2006

Drawn together from two decades of itinerant shooting in Europe, Travel Songs evokes Jonas Mekas' improvisatory approach to sightseeing, with Assis...

03 de jul. de 1981

In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signature diaristic style. Mixing the familiar 16mm fi...

01 de set. de 2017

With Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Ray Bremser, Le Roi Jones, Peter Orlovsky, this film takes place in the Living Theater, 1958.

01 de nov. de 2006

The film documents an encounter at 202 Blvd Saint-Germain, in a cafe underneath Apollinaire's last place of residence. Jean-Jacques Lebel gives Jon...

09 de jan. de 2007

31 de dez. de 1967

23 de mai. de 1967

"A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped...

01 de dez. de 2012

Elvis Presley performance at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on Saturday June 10, 1972, the concert, and the subsequent album, wer...

10 de jun. de 1972

A meditative tribute to Verdi’s masterpiece and an homage to beloved filmmaker Jonas Mekas.

01 de nov. de 2019

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

09 de abr. de 2011

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

31 de dez. de 1992

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic sketches, fla...

16 de dez. de 1963

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

01 de jan. de 2014

An oblique documentary about the LSD group experiments of Timothy Leary, with off screen commentary of a participant and shots of Leary's house and...

06 de set. de 1966

A short lecture by Jonas Mekas

09 de fev. de 2000

A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the ...

06 de fev. de 2009

This is a mini-portrait of one of the legendary figures of the 60s who should be credited for the discovery of the Velvet Underground, for saving B...

01 de nov. de 2006

In 1950 Jerome Hill went to Zurich with the intention of making a film about Dr. Carl G. Jung. The project was abandoned when Hill decided that Jun...

06 de ago. de 1991

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in ...

30 de jan. de 1967

This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his clos...

03 de jul. de 1997

Footage from 1964-1968 that did not find its way into the Walden reels is joined in this classic period piece. Mostly centered in New York, it also...

03 de jun. de 1978

"In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't th...

02 de jul. de 1965

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 surroundi...

01 de nov. de 2006

Filmed in Berlin, July 1990. Images of workers taking down the wall and street peddlers selling pieces of it to make a living.

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

01 de jan. de 1996

Acompanhe uma equipe formada por dezesseis surfistas e oito músicos embarcando em uma jornada poética de imersão na cultura local em três oceanos, ...

15 de jun. de 2019

Velvet Underground's first public appearance.

01 de nov. de 2006

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

31 de dez. de 1996

The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after he first began working with video as well as mo...

14 de set. de 2020

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...

31 de dez. de 2003

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams...

03 de jul. de 1978

The real history of the cinema is the invisible history – history of friends getting together doing the thing the love – for us the cinema is begin...

01 de jan. de 1996

For some time I had been thinking about doing something with my Paris footage, of which I have many many hours. So [curator Danièle Hibon’s] sugges...

31 de dez. de 2011

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...

22 de abr. de 2004

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

11 de nov. de 2006

Jerome Hill had a little outdoor theater on the shore of the Mediterranean. Usually he brought over some musicians, like the Julliard Quartet. But ...

01 de jan. de 1995

Imperfect 3-Image Films | EUA, 1995, 16 mm, pb-cor, 6' ... MOCAtv Presents 'In Focus' - Jonas Mekas - The Artist's Studio by MOCA 9,101 .

03 de jul. de 1995

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

01 de jan. de 2011

In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" an...

01 de nov. de 2006

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

01 de jan. de 2000

On January 1st of 2007, Mekas began his epic "365" project inspired by the Italian poet Petrarca and his Canzoniere. Releasing one film for every d...

03 de fev. de 2007

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

03 de jul. de 1991

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

05 de dez. de 2017

31 de dez. de 1967

Scenes from the life and work at Anthology Film Archives. Much of the footage in this video was shot by Auguste Varkalis.

01 de jan. de 1999

Portrait of the architect Raimund Abraham.

22 de mar. de 2015

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

01 de jan. de 1993

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

03 de jul. de 1979

Patti Smith improvises a song.

31 de dez. de 1998

Jonas Mekas' video letter to John Hanhardt, in which he declines an offer for Anthology to be taken on by the Guggenheim, insisting that they must ...

06 de mar. de 1999

In 1971, Jonas Mekas was permitted by the Soviet authorities to visit his mother in Lithuania whom he had not seen for 27 years. On his return trip...

01 de jan. de 2001

Shot in 1950 upon arriving in America, Mekas did not edit and present the footage until 2003 making this both his first and last film shot on 16mm.

01 de jan. de 2003

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 ...

01 de jan. de 2005

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

31 de dez. de 2005

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016

08 de mai. de 2016

Jonas Mekas at Zebulon, a music bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, dedicating his 365 day series to Petrarca (1304-1374) the poet who wrote 365 poems t...

01 de jan. de 2007

Filmed on Dec. 15, 1990. On a rainy day, I have a walk through the early Soho. I begin my walk on 80 Wooster Street and continue towards the Willia...

15 de dez. de 1990

Andy Warhol at the Village Gate, June 7, 1966. Andy videotaping John Kennedy Jr. and Anthony Radziwill at Andy's estate, 1971, in Montauk, Long Isl...

01 de nov. de 2006

Consists of images of the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum in May of 1971. It also includes a George Maciunas dumpling party on 80 Wooster St...

01 de nov. de 2006

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

01 de jan. de 1969

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

01 de jan. de 2015

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

01 de jun. de 2015

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

23 de dez. de 2014

In 1963, a magazine called Show commissioned me to make a promotion film for them. I conceived the film as a film periodical devoted to the arts. I...

01 de jan. de 1983

I made this video June 23, 2001, as a letter for my good friend Penny Arcade who some days earlier had asked me why I love New York. I truly love N...

23 de jun. de 2001

"Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies an...

01 de jan. de 1962

In May 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famous Bed-In For Peace event. It was attended by many of their close friends, including Timothy Le...

I am in Provence near Mt. Ventoux. I remember the poet Petrarca walking on Mt. Ventoux and carrying with him a volume of St. Augustine’s CONFESSION...

31 de dez. de 2011

"There I am, I am treated with the First Class ticket. Evening. But all the businessmen are already sleeping. I can’t sleep. I discover a bar. I ta...

01 de jan. de 2011

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 M...

01 de jan. de 2015

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

31 de dez. de 1997

A narrative presented non-chronologically of Jonas Mekas's time in German forced labour camps and displaced person camps from 1944 to 1949, in whic...

01 de jan. de 2012

Footage of Orchard Street from 1953 and 1975, put together for an opening of James Fuentes Gallery in 2010 on Delancey Street. You see the commerci...

24 de set. de 2010

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 a...

18 de out. de 1983

For some twenty years Mars Bar, on the corner of First Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer and te...

06 de out. de 2011

My wedding gift to Robert Haller and Amy Greenfield. The publishers of the Anthology Film Archives are very happy with the making this farce.

01 de jan. de 1980

Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.

01 de nov. de 2006

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

11 de nov. de 2006

Images from two trips to Japan, 1983 and 1991. With music – percussion – by Dalius Naujokaitis. A song, or maybe a duet between images and sound. A...

31 de dez. de 1995

Marcel Hanoun wedding by Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.

07 de jun. de 1980

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 of on...

01 de out. de 2001

"Made for a billboard project in Luxembourg, a project that never became reality, this video is an exercise in silence and sound." - Jonas Mekas

01 de jan. de 2000