Jonas Mekas Movies

"Made for a billboard project in Luxembourg, a project that never became reality, this video is an exercise in silence and sound." - Jonas Mekas

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

I am in Provence near Mt. Ventoux. I remember the poet Petrarca walking on Mt. Ventoux and carrying with him a volume of St. Augustine’s...

In 1977, Robertas Verba followed Jonas Mekas in Lithuania, his second trip there after he left the country in 1944.

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

A lyrical diary film composed of fleeting images of the World Trade Center, filmed over decades as the towers appeared in Jonas Mekas’s...

A tiny part of our (homonymous) homage for the minors master.

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

A home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe. It was filmed concurrently with the more highly...

An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by...

A unique and compelling account of the day that changed the modern world, captured by ordinary people who chose to pick up their cameras and film...

Using this performance as a frame of reference, Lassnig invents her own actions: A man (her neighbor Roger) is filmed lying stiffly on the ground, in...

During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...

The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

The last, and previously unreleased, filmed letters exchanged between Jonas Mekas, from his home in Brooklyn, and José Luis Guerin, from his...

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...

Diane the Zebra Woman follows four women’s misadventures through the streets of New York City in 1962. All played by Flame Schon, the...