Jonas Mekas Movies

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...

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...

Jonas Mekas films the inside of the Cinematheque Française. Especially while running. Part of the cycle of the First 40.

Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.

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

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

Two artists, whose work was constrained during the Soviet era, fled to New York. There, they met with their guru Jonas Mekas, the creator of...

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...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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

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

Shot in 1960 on the set of Jonas Mekas' 'Guns of the Trees'. Dedicated to Ron Rice.

I filmed the young Bibi Hansen in 1966 as a screen test for a film I wanted to make out the life of a young girl growing up in New York. The film was...

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...

The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York. This...

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

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

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...