Jonas Mekas Movies

  • 2002
    Jonas Keeps Shooting Around

    Jonas Keeps Shooting Around

    Jonas Keeps Shooting Around

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    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...

    Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
  • 2003
    Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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    Filmed in 1950 soon after Jonas Mekas arrived in New York, this short documents everyday life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was the first film he...

    Williamsburg, Brooklyn
  • 1998
    Song of Avignon

    Song of Avignon

    Song of Avignon

    7.51998HD

    Jonas Mekas reflects on a 1966 trip to Avignon that offered solace during a period of personal crisis. Combining diary texts read by Angus MacLise...

    Song of Avignon
  • 2011
    Keep Singing

    Keep Singing

    Keep Singing

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    "Occasionally I join my music friends Dalius Naujo and Kenny Wollesen at Zebulon, a French music bistro in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They are great...

    Keep Singing
  • 2006
    A Visit to Stan Brakhage

    A Visit to Stan Brakhage

    A Visit to Stan Brakhage

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    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...

    A Visit to Stan Brakhage
  • 1966
    The Love Merchant

    The Love Merchant

    The Love Merchant

    4.91966HD

    Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...

    The Love Merchant
  • 2015
    Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham

    Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham

    Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham

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    Portrait of the architect Raimund Abraham.

    Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham
  • 2009
    Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR

    Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR

    Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR

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

    Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR
  • 1968
    Jonas

    Jonas

    Jonas

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    A verité portrait of Jonas Mekas making his daily rounds, JONAS shows us the underground impresario attending a peace rally, filming in...

    Jonas
  • 2000
    Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes

    Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes

    Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes

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

    Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes
  • 2017
    From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac

    From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac

    From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac

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

    From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac
  • 1995
    Imperfect Three-Image Films

    Imperfect Three-Image Films

    Imperfect Three-Image Films

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    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 .

    Imperfect Three-Image Films
  • 2010
    Visionaries

    Visionaries

    Visionaries

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    Documentary on Jonas Mekas and the American avant-garde cinema, with several new interviews and appearances and over 100 excerpts and examples....

    Visionaries
  • 2010
    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

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    A short film portrait of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, talking about the Buddha and the meaning of life.

    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
  • 1999
    Letter to John from Jonas

    Letter to John from Jonas

    Letter to John from Jonas

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    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...

    Letter to John from Jonas
  • 2006
    End of the Millennium Espresso

    End of the Millennium Espresso

    End of the Millennium Espresso

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    This was taped on the last day of the 20th Century, while having my last espresso of the century at Cremcafe, Second Avenue. I talk about the 20th...

    End of the Millennium Espresso
  • 2013
    I Leave Chelsea Hotel

    I Leave Chelsea Hotel

    I Leave Chelsea Hotel

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    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...

    I Leave Chelsea Hotel
  • 2006
    Imperfect Film

    Imperfect Film

    Imperfect Film

    02006HD

    This is a film made with outtakes from my other films and some found footage. It includes great found footage with monkeys. Sound: Auguste Varkalis...

    Imperfect Film
  • 1999
    A Few Notes on Andy's Factory

    A Few Notes on Andy's Factory

    A Few Notes on Andy's Factory

    01999HD

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

    A Few Notes on Andy's Factory
  • 1996
    Song of The Salamander

    Song of The Salamander

    Song of The Salamander

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

    Song of The Salamander