Jonas Mekas Movies

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978.

An experimental short by Beth B. It consists of rapidly intercut close-ups of talking heads reading statements from a Sigmund Freud case history;...

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

Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

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

Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

A casual, personal portrait of Hermann Nitsch, made with footage I took over the many years of our friendship. Footage includes early performances in...

A newsreel of Jonas Mekas shooting his filmed version of The Brig on the set of the Living Theatre production.

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

During the course of a single winter’s day, January 16, 1966, Jonas Mekas captured impressionistic glimpses of people playing and working in...

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

The film documents an encounter at 202 Blvd Saint-Germain, in a cafe underneath Apollinaire's last place of residence. Jean-Jacques Lebel gives Jonas...

In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come...

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

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...

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...

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

Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.