Jonas Mekas Movies

  • 2012
    Happy Easter Ride

    Happy Easter Ride

    Happy Easter Ride

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    Shortfilm in which Mekas follows a band on a boat ride on Easter Day.

    Happy Easter Ride
  • 2007
    Friday March 16, 2007

    Friday March 16, 2007

    Friday March 16, 2007

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    On January 1st of 2007, Mekas began his epic "365" project inspired by the Italian poet Petrarca and his Canzoniere. Releasing one film for every day...

    Friday March 16, 2007
  • 2010
    Lavender

    Lavender

    Lavender

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

    Lavender
  • 1993
    Jonas Mekas in Budapest

    Jonas Mekas in Budapest

    Jonas Mekas in Budapest

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    Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.

    Jonas Mekas in Budapest
  • 2006
    Bibi Hansen

    Bibi Hansen

    Bibi Hansen

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    I filmed the young Bibi Hansen in 1966 as a screen test for a film I wanted to make out the life of a young girl growing up in New York. The film was...

    Bibi Hansen
  • 2003
    Axiom of Choice

    Axiom of Choice

    Axiom of Choice

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    Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait, Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian, their heads rotating in radiant...

    Axiom of Choice
  • 2008
    Question a Day

    Question a Day

    Question a Day

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    In 2008, Andrew Lampert, employed as the film archivist of Anthology Film Archives, endeavored to ask Jonas Mekas, its legendary and charismatic...

    Question a Day
  • 2006
    Elia Kazan

    Elia Kazan

    Elia Kazan

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    This was filmed on August 18, 1972 at the house of Lee Radziwill in Montauk, Long Island. The film includes Elia Kazan, Barbara Loden, Peter Beard,...

    Elia Kazan
  • 2019
    Jonas Towards Broadway

    Jonas Towards Broadway

    Jonas Towards Broadway

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    Short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler, Peter Sempel.

    Jonas Towards Broadway
  • 2006
    Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC

    Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC

    Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC

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    This was filmed in the Bronx on July 17, 1993. It includes writings on train passage walls created by many classic graffiti artists of c. 1993...

    Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC
  • 2006
    Cinémathèque Française

    Cinémathèque Française

    Cinémathèque Française

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    Jonas Mekas films the inside of the Cinematheque Française. Especially while running. Part of the cycle of the First 40.

    Cinémathèque Française
  • 1996
    Song of The Salamander

    Song of The Salamander

    Song of The Salamander

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    This film has to do with the early years of my daughter Oona, when she was three or four years old

    Song of The Salamander
  • 2011
    First Class Flight

    First Class Flight

    First Class Flight

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    "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....

    First Class Flight
  • 1992
    Visiting Jonas Mekas

    Visiting Jonas Mekas

    Visiting Jonas Mekas

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    In a mimetic approach to that of the great documentarian, Dubosc delivers notes and fragments of their meetings between 1991 and 1992 in New York. In...

    Visiting Jonas Mekas
  • 2000
    Silence, Please

    Silence, Please

    Silence, Please

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    "Made for a billboard project in Luxembourg, a project that never became reality, this video is an exercise in silence and sound." - Jonas Mekas

    Silence, Please
  • 2006
    Warhol and Maciunas

    Warhol and Maciunas

    Warhol and Maciunas

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    Consists of images of the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum in May of 1971. It also includes a George Maciunas dumpling party on 80 Wooster...

    Warhol and Maciunas
  • 1980
    Self-Portrait

    Self-Portrait

    Self-Portrait

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    Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.

    Self-Portrait
  • 2006
    Kreutzer Sonata

    Kreutzer Sonata

    Kreutzer Sonata

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    From the diaires This was taped during the editing of my film As I WasMoving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. It shows how I work,...

    Kreutzer Sonata
  • 1980
    Robert Haller's Wedding

    Robert Haller's Wedding

    Robert Haller's Wedding

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    My wedding gift to Robert Haller and Amy Greenfield. The publishers of the Anthology Film Archives are very happy with the making this farce.

    Robert Haller's Wedding
  • 2006
    The Destruction Quartet

    The Destruction Quartet

    The Destruction Quartet

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

    The Destruction Quartet