Jonas Mekas Movies

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

In 1969, Leonardi traveled to the United States to write a book about the New American Cinema. Using a Super-8 camera, he made a film-diary of this...

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

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

Clip from Walden.

A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the...

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...

An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress.

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

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

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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