Jonas Mekas Movies

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

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

A narrative presented non-chronologically of Jonas Mekas's time in German forced labour camps and displaced person camps from 1944 to 1949, in which...

Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.

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...

This was originally an art installation by Jonas Mekas which was later shown in a single-screen tetraptych.

"There I am, I am treated with the First Class ticket. Evening. But all the businessmen are already sleeping. I can’t sleep. I discover a bar....

Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

Jonas Mekas : I am not a Filmmaker is a documentary about one of the most emblematic figures of American Avant-Garde Cinema. Mekas was born on a farm...

An autobiographical vignette, this is a stop in Marseilles in the summer of 1966. I am sharing a croissant with a cat while boyan singing, presenting...

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.