Jonas Mekas Movies
- 2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis6.62007HD
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
- 1964
The Brig
The Brig6.61964HD
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...
- 2005
Excavating Taylor Mead
Excavating Taylor Mead02005HD
The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.
- 1972
Imagine
Imagine71972HD
A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John's historic 'Imagine'...
- 1961
The Sin of Jesus
The Sin of Jesus4.81961HD
An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.
- 1994
Jonas in the Desert
Jonas in the Desert5.51994HD
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 2007
365 Day Project
365 Day Project102007HD
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...
- 1983
Erick Hawkins: Excerpts from "Here and Now with Watchers"
Erick Hawkins: Excerpts from "Here and Now with Watchers"01983HD
In 1963, a magazine called Show commissioned me to make a promotion film for them. I conceived the film as a film periodical devoted to the arts. I...
- 1961
Guns of the Trees
Guns of the Trees7.41961HD
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...
- 2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film6.72011HD
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life8.21986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
In the Mirror of Maya Deren7.42002HD
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
- 1990
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections6.51990HD
This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to...
- 1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit5.21997HD
This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close...
- 1998
Song of Avignon
Song of Avignon7.6841998HD
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...
- 2009
Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR
Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR92009HD
A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the...
- 2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Maya Deren, Take Zero52012HD
This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander...
- 2012
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man6.52012HD
"A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped...
- 1966
The Love Merchant
The Love Merchant4.91966HD
Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...