Jonas Mekas Movies

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

The story of Tiny Tim’s improbable rise to stardom is the ultimate fairytale - and so is that of his downfall. For a brief time, the shy and...

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016

An ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work...

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to...

The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after he first began working with video as well...

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

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, through various locations during the shooting of his...

Reflections on my 1966 trip to Avignon that helped me to survive a deep crisis I was going through. Texts from my diaries of that period on the...

An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.

A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth...

The Velvet Underground's first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist's Convention, at the Delmonico Hotel, New York, January 14,...

An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes...

Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known...

In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus...

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert...