Jonas Mekas Movies

Created by Anthology’s Archivist John Klacsmann, the visual track of Elegy for J.M. is the result of an encoding malfunction while preparing a...

"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....

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

Jonas Mekas' video letter to John Hanhardt, in which he declines an offer for Anthology to be taken on by the Guggenheim, insisting that they must...

In 1966 I came up upon a book of Meher Baba, the Indian guru/scientist, in which he said that there are three great holy places in Europe: Avila,...

Summary of the first fifty years Jonas Mekas spent in New York.

"Occasionally I join my music friends Dalius Naujo and Kenny Wollesen at Zebulon, a French music bistro in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They are great...

Jerome Hill had a little outdoor theater on the shore of the Mediterranean. Usually he brought over some musicians, like the Julliard Quartet. But in...

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

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

Filmed on Dec. 15, 1990. On a rainy day, I have a walk through the early Soho. I begin my walk on 80 Wooster Street and continue towards the...

This is a mini-portrait of one of the legendary figures of the 60s who should be credited for the discovery of the Velvet Underground, for saving Bob...

Short film by Jonas Mekas. Part of the collective film One Dream Rush.

This is footage of Elvis Presley's last performance in New York on June 9th, 1972. It is preceded by footage I shot in Vienna a few years earlier. It...