Jonas Mekas Movies

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

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 commercial...

In a mimetic approach to that of the great documentarian, Dubosc delivers notes and fragments of their meetings between 1991 and 1992 in New York. In...

"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....

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

A document of a Living Theater performance in Cassis, France, this piece was filmed in 1966 but only edited and released in 2002, with a newly...

Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery...

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

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

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.

An autobiographical vignette, this is a stop in Marseilles in the summer of 1966. I am sharing a croissant with a cat while boyan singing, presenting...

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