Jonas Mekas Movies

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 worth...

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 to...

An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.

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...

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...

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to...

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

A portrait movie of the Godfather of American avantgarde cinema. Through material filmed primarily in the 1990s by both the directors and Jonas Mekas...

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

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents...

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

This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander...

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

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

Screen test for Andy Warhol, 1966

Co-director Robert Margolis stars as Robert, an actor who may or may not be himself in this intense and often hilarious film about acting, aging and...

Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.