Jonas Mekas Movies

Jonas Mekas came to Paris in October 1997 for the video release of his film Walden. I filmed the event and its twists and turns at the...

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

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

This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew...

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

After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could...

The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas of what art can be. In large part filmed in Venice...

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

Alexander Kluge - October 22 2016

I close the 365 Day Project and announce the 1001 Nights Project ---HASTA LA VISTA! ---

Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.

This was filmed at Anthology Film Archives on May 31, 2000.

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

In 2008, Andrew Lampert, employed as the film archivist of Anthology Film Archives, endeavored to ask Jonas Mekas, its legendary and charismatic...

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

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...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to the Soviet Union in 1971, this short presents a personal record of Moscow. The footage was later...

Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait, Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian, their heads rotating in radiant...

New York Conversations is a documentary made of varied conversations revolving around cinema in New York. These conversations give us the opportunity...

This was filmed in the Bronx on July 17, 1993. It includes writings on train passage walls created by many classic graffiti artists of c. 1993...