Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (12-24-1922 - 1-23-2019) was born in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. In 1944, he and his brother Adolfas were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Elmshorn, Germany. After the War he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz. At the end of 1949 the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York City, where they settled down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Two months after his arrival in New York he borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. He soon got deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement. In 1954, together with his brother, he started Film Culture magazine, which soon became the most important film publication in the US. In 1958 he began his legendary Movie Journal column in the Village Voice. In 1962 he founded the Film-Makers' Cooperative, and in 1964 the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema, and a screening venue.
During all this time he continued writing poetry and making films. To this date he has published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, which have been translated into over a dozen languages. His Lithuanian poetry is now part of Lithuanian classic literature and his films can be found in leading museums around the world. He is largely credited for developing the diaristic forms of cinema. Mekas has also been active as an academic, teaching at the New School for Social Research, the International Center for Photography, Cooper Union, New York University, and MIT.
Mekas' film The Brig was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. Other films include Walden (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), Lost Lost Lost (1975), Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), As I was Moving Ahead I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), Letter from Greenpoint (2005), Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) and Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man. In 2007, he completed a series of 365 short films released on the internet -- one film every day -- and since then has continued to share new work on his website.
Since 2000, Mekas has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Moderna Museet (Stockholm), PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA, Documenta of Kassel, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Venice Biennale.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4646 |
| Birthday | 1922-12-24 |
| Place of Birth | Semeniškiai, Lithuania |
| Also Known As |
1998
My Country is Cinema
0/0
A portrait of Jonas Mekas.
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My Country is Cinema
2019
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
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"Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas / Version 1": this is the last filmed interview of Jonas Mekas. This is a last gift from Jonas to us.
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Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
2021
The Velvet Underground
6.787/115
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes...
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The Velvet Underground
2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
7.8/10
Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a su...
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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
Notes for a Déjà vu
0/0
The immediately recognisable voice and sweet wistful words of the late legend of the avantgarde, Jonas Mekas, is heard over the images of an imagined...
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Notes for a Déjà vu
2019
Cinema and Sanctuary
0/0
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 groundbre...
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Cinema and Sanctuary
1981
Strong Medicine
6.333/6
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday par...
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Strong Medicine
1984
Persistence of Vision
0/0
A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are i...
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Persistence of Vision
2015
All About Bolex
0/0
"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."
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All About Bolex
2015
A Report from Venice
0/0
Opening of the Internet Saga Pavilion. At Palazzo Foscari Contarini, Venice. May 6 and 7, 2015.
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A Report from Venice
2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
6.9/8
The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an artist...
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Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2021
Back from New York
0/0
Two artists, whose work was constrained during the Soviet era, fled to New York. There, they met with their guru Jonas Mekas, the creator of avant-gar...
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Back from New York
1996
Michael Snow Up Close
6/1
MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist. The...
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Michael Snow Up Close
2009
The Signing
0/0
MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.
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The Signing
2006
Anger Me
8.8/4
Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until p...
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Anger Me
2010
Lavender
0/0
A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.
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Lavender
2014
My Birthday
6/1
Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.
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My Birthday
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
0/0
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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Home Movies 1971-81
1992
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
6.222/9
The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978.
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Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
7.636/81
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2012
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
6.5/9
An autobiographical diary film assembled from unused footage shot between 1960 and 2000, interwoven with reflections, music, and glimpses of family, f...
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Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
1997
A Poet from the Lower East Side
10/1
Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag's fascinating documentary follows Hungarian poet, playwright and activist István Eörsi on a trip to the streets of New York to...
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A Poet from the Lower East Side
1989
Belladonna
8/1
An experimental short by Beth B. It consists of rapidly intercut close-ups of talking heads reading statements from a Sigmund Freud case history; affi...
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Belladonna
2002
Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
5/1
A short portrait of Jonas Mekas on the occasion of his 2002 retrospective in Paris (for his 80th birthday). Through film clips and interviews, Mekas r...
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Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
2014
River of Fundament
5.9/18
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collabora...
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River of Fundament
2022
Vertigo
0/0
Gozo Yoshimasu, a pioneer of Japanese contemporary poetry, pursued the vision of his ally, the late Jonas Mekas in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The time is...
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Vertigo
1966
Galaxie
10/1
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Au...
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Galaxie
1991
Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas
0/0
Jonas Mekas recites poems of his, both in English and Lithuanian. Exclusive Mekas interview by the poet Sparrow. The legendary poet-film critic and fi...
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Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas
2022
Jonas Mekas Anthology
0/0
A portrait movie of the Godfather of American avantgarde cinema. Through material filmed primarily in the 1990s by both the directors and Jonas Mekas...
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Jonas Mekas Anthology
2022
Fragments of Paradise
6.5/4
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his di...
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Fragments of Paradise
1978
Notes for Jerome
7/1
During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Si...
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Notes for Jerome
2022
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
0/0
This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system over the...
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Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
The Lamb
0/0
Jonas Mekas reads aloud in "one Night from the thousand Nights and a Night"
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The Lamb
1980
J. Mekas
0/0
In 1977, Robertas Verba followed Jonas Mekas in Lithuania, his second trip there after he left the country in 1944.
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J. Mekas
1970
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
0/0
A film by Alfredo Leonardi.
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Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
2011
Guest
6/8
Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges...
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Guest
Viva Jonas!
0/0
A tiny part of our (homonymous) homage for the minors master.
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Viva Jonas!
2008
Doc
0/0
The amazing adventures of forgotten American novelist and Paris Review founder, Harold Louis "Doc" Humes. His story is crammed full of ideas, about ut...
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Doc
1991
Just Visiting This Planet
5/2
Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno.
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Just Visiting This Planet
1968
Jonas
0/0
A verité portrait of Jonas Mekas making his daily rounds, JONAS shows us the underground impresario attending a peace rally, filming in Central Park,...
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Jonas
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
5/1
This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew...
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Maya Deren, Take Zero
2009
The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
0/0
Filmmaker Michael Rogosin's fascinating exploration of the production history behind his father Lionel's groundbreaking documentary, On the Bowery.
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The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
1978
Four Shadows
7/2
Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image sectio...
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Four Shadows
1962
Diane the Zebra Woman
9/1
Diane the Zebra Woman follows four women’s misadventures through the streets of New York City in 1962. All played by Flame Schon, the characters consi...
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Diane the Zebra Woman
2016
On the Holy Spirit
0/0
Alexander Kluge - October 22 2016
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On the Holy Spirit
2016
I Had Nowhere to Go
0/0
I Had Nowhere To Go is based on Jonas Mekas’s diary. It’s been over 70 years since he left his village in Lithuania to escape Nazi persecution. He was...
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I Had Nowhere to Go
2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
7.472/18
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2012
Reminiscences from Germany
0/0
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 h...
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Reminiscences from Germany
1967
The Song of Avila
6.4/7
Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Avila in 1967, this short records his impressions of the city, inspired by Meher Baba’s teaching that it was one...
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The Song of Avila
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
8.4/10
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1990
Step Across the Border
8.077/13
An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.
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Step Across the Border
1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
5.2/2
This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close f...
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Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
2005
The Definition of Insanity
9.5/2
Co-director Robert Margolis stars as Robert, an actor who may or may not be himself in this intense and often hilarious film about acting, aging and t...
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The Definition of Insanity
2017
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
8/1
In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signature diaristic style. Mixing the familiar 16mm film...
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I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
1981
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
6.286/7
“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monume...
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The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1966
The Love Merchant
4.929/7
Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his nex...
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The Love Merchant
1972
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
7.102/44
Jonas Mekas weaves an elegiac diary film from his 1971–72 return to Lithuania, chronicling a visit to his birthplace of Semeniškiai after decades in e...
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
2006
Notes on Marie Menken
5.4/5
A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.
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Notes on Marie Menken
1972
Going Home
5.833/6
A home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe. It was filmed concurrently with the more highly regarde...
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Going Home
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
6.6/9
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's perform...
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
1964
Salvador Dalí at Work
5/1
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.
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Salvador Dalí at Work
1980
No. 18: Mahagonny
6/3
Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise...
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No. 18: Mahagonny
1965
Jonas in the Brig
0/0
A newsreel of Jonas Mekas shooting his filmed version of The Brig on the set of the Living Theatre production.
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Jonas in the Brig
1968
Underground New York
0/0
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American cul...
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Underground New York
1979
ORG
5.111/9
Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrib...
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ORG
1980
Self-Portrait
9/1
Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.
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Self-Portrait
2007
Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
0/0
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...
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Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
2013
My Conversations on Film
3.2/6
This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Krame...
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My Conversations on Film
2006
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
0/0
Provides a rare glimpse into the world of George and Mike Kuchar, underground filmmaking brothers from the Bronx. Get to know the Kuchars, casually ha...
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Meet The Kuchar Brothers
1994
Jonas in the Desert
6.4/5
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of in...
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Jonas in the Desert
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
6.8/12
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up a...
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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
1974
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
7.75/8
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1969
Filmmakers
0/0
Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each portrait,...
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Filmmakers
1996
Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
0/0
The real history of the cinema is the invisible history – history of friends getting together doing the thing the love – for us the cinema is beginnin...
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Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
1971
Journey to Lithuania
7/1
During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle, Adolf...
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Journey to Lithuania
1999
Laboratorium Anthology
0/0
Scenes from the life and work at Anthology Film Archives. Much of the footage in this video was shot by Auguste Varkalis.
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Laboratorium Anthology
1986
Invocation: Maya Deren
6.333/3
Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts fro...
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Invocation: Maya Deren
2009
It Came from Kuchar
7/9
It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike Kuc...
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It Came from Kuchar
2010
Visionaries
6/1
Documentary on Jonas Mekas and the American avant-garde cinema, with several new interviews and appearances and over 100 excerpts and examples. Detail...
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Visionaries
1964
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
7.5/2
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 on...
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Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
2010
New York Conversations
0/0
New York Conversations is a documentary made of varied conversations revolving around cinema in New York. These conversations give us the opportunity...
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New York Conversations
2018
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
7/1
In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus f...
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George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
1989
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
8/1
Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in coll...
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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
2013
What Is Cinema?
6.5/24
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, Da...
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What Is Cinema?
2008
Question a Day
0/0
In 2008, Andrew Lampert, employed as the film archivist of Anthology Film Archives, endeavored to ask Jonas Mekas, its legendary and charismatic found...
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Question a Day
1999
Letter to John from Jonas
0/0
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 mai...
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Letter to John from Jonas
2000
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
0/0
A short lecture by Jonas Mekas
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Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
2010
Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
0/0
A short film portrait of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, talking about the Buddha and the meaning of life.
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Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
2019
Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
0/0
A film tribute to the inspirational Jonas Mekas.
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Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
2018
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
0/0
The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double project...
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Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
1967
Poem Posters
0/0
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroug...
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Poem Posters
2005
Excavating Taylor Mead
7/1
The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.
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Excavating Taylor Mead
2004
A Letter from Greenpoint
0/0
In February 2004, after 30 years of my life in SoHo, I made a decision to leave SoHo and move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This video is about what it fe...
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A Letter from Greenpoint
1968
A Matter of Baobab
0/0
International Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante, from Madagascar, poet and publisher; Storm De Hirsch,...
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A Matter of Baobab
2019
Makeshift (for Mekas)
6/1
Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery fr...
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Makeshift (for Mekas)
2001
A Letter to Penny Arcade
6/1
I made this video June 23, 2001, as a letter for my good friend Penny Arcade who some days earlier had asked me why I love New York. I truly love New...
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A Letter to Penny Arcade
2019
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
7.2/5
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1...
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Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019
Self Discovery for Social Survival
5.4/5
Self Discovery for Social Survival is a collaborative surf and music film produced by Brooklyn based record label, Mexican Summer and Pilgrim Surf + S...
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Self Discovery for Social Survival
2018
Nitsch
0/0
A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.
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Nitsch
1965
Dirt
7.667/3
Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.
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Dirt
2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
5/1
Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life.
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A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2009
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
6.5/2
Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009) an...
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Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
1992
Award
9/1
A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.
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Award
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
8/3
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, a...
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1995
Nico Icon
7.727/11
A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva o...
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Nico Icon
1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
7.25/4
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. Th...
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
2006
Who Gets to Call It Art?
6.875/8
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.
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Who Gets to Call It Art?
2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
0/0
"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs
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Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2011
My Mars Bar Movie
0/0
For some twenty years Mars Bar, on the corner of First Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer and tequi...
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My Mars Bar Movie
1972
Imagine
7.033/30
A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John's historic 'Imagine' alb...
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Imagine
1978
Cinématon
4.857/7
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 y...
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Cinématon
2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2.9/4
Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, makin...
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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
1979
Paradise Not Yet Lost
10/1
The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.
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Paradise Not Yet Lost
2018
Beyond the Bolex
7/2
Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents that...
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Beyond the Bolex
2007
365 Day Project
10/1
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 and for...
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365 Day Project
1965
Empire
4.307/44
Filmed by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building, “Empire” explores the passage of time without the use of characters or a traditio...
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Empire
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
7.2/30
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends,...
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1976
Lost, Lost, Lost
7.13/23
Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the struggle t...
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Lost, Lost, Lost
2011
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
0/0
“Drawing on his personal archives, Mekas has assembled a Fluxus vaudeville starring Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, and the late Nam June Paik. Most of the ma...
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Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
1998
Song of Avignon
7.4/24
Jonas Mekas reflects on a 1966 trip to Avignon that offered solace during a period of personal crisis. Combining diary texts read by Angus MacLise wit...
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Song of Avignon
1991
Quartet Number One
7.5/2
Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.
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Quartet Number One
1996
Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October
0/0
Jonas, Birgit and Anja are leaving for the Brooklyn Bridge. By taxi, buying beer, drinking in the street, joking, running, dancing on the bridge. It w...
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Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October
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1966
Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas
0/0
Screen test for Andy Warhol, 1966
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Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas
2003
Not in Our Name
0/0
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Not in Our Name
2008
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
5.6/5
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, through various locations during the shooting of his f...
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Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2006
The Song of Central Park
0/0
During the course of a single winter’s day, January 16, 1966, Jonas Mekas captured impressionistic glimpses of people playing and working in Central P...
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The Song of Central Park
2011
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
7/12
A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.
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Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2020
Tapes
0/0
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 as more...
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Tapes
1975
Postcard from America
5/1
After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could be a mo...
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Postcard from America
2011
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
6.5/2
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
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3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2019
Elegy for J.M.
0/0
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 clip of...
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Elegy for J.M.
2019
Jonas Towards Broadway
0/0
Short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler, Peter Sempel.
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Jonas Towards Broadway
2019
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
0/0
A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel.
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3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2003
Axiom of Choice
0/0
Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait, Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian, their heads rotating in radiant chiaroscur...
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Axiom of Choice
2016
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
0/0
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.
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Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2020
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
6.1/12
The story of Tiny Tim’s improbable rise to stardom is the ultimate fairytale - and so is that of his downfall. For a brief time, the shy and truly unu...
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Tiny Tim: King for a Day
Cinématon n°1590 : Jonas Mekas
0/0
Jonas Mekas' "Cinématon" No. 1590, directed by Gérard Courant on December 14, 1992, in Paris, France.
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Cinématon n°1590 : Jonas Mekas
1986
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
0/0
Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography and...
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Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
2016
EXPRMNTL
0/0
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Fest...
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EXPRMNTL
1961
The Sin of Jesus
5.429/7
An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.
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The Sin of Jesus
2021
The Invisible Father
0/0
In the 1960s, beat poet and experimental filmmaker Piero Heliczer helped shape New American Cinema, and was enmeshed with iconic filmmaker Andy Warhol...
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The Invisible Father
2007
Sunday December 30, 2007
0/0
I close the 365 Day Project and announce the 1001 Nights Project ---HASTA LA VISTA! ---
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Sunday December 30, 2007
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
7.2/30
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends,...
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
2002
Notes in Lifestyle Margins
0/0
The film tells about the famous Lithuanian director Vytautas Žalakevičius. The film contains many excerpts from the director's films and conversations...
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Notes in Lifestyle Margins
1993
Jonas Mekas in Budapest
0/0
Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.
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Jonas Mekas in Budapest
2005
Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
0/0
Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exceptional participation of Ultraviolet, never-befor...
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Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
2006
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
0/0
Friends and colleagues (including Yoko Ono and Merce Cunningham) of Nam June Paik share their thoughts about the groundbreaking multimedia artist in t...
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Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
2015
Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
0/0
This documentary cracks open the meticulously constructed façade of Andy Warhol, exposing the complex figure behind the soup cans and Marilyns. Direct...
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Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
7/1
The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas of what art can be. In large part filmed in Venice...
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The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
1971
Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971
0/0
Jonas Mekas visit. Harry comes by before Ricky visit. 1. 12 p.m. April 15th -- Jonas dares to come by but won't talk. I tape him not with set up -- (...
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Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971
1998
Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97
0/0
Jonas Mekas came to Paris in October 1997 for the video release of his film Walden. I filmed the event and its twists and turns at the Cinémathèque, t...
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Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97
2025
A Mixtape for Stom
0/0
"A Mixtape for Stom" is an intimate documentary portrait of Japanese experimental filmmaker Stom Sogo (1975–2012), whose frenetic Super-8mm works beca...
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A Mixtape for Stom
2015
Filmstudio, mon amour
10/2
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Filmstudio, mon amour
1966
Shooting Guns
0/0
Shot in 1960 on the set of Jonas Mekas' 'Guns of the Trees'. Dedicated to Ron Rice.
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Shooting Guns
1973
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
0/0
During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made wit...
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Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
2013
Jonas in the Jungle
0/0
An essayistic film journey with Jonas Mekas, the living legend of avant-garde cinema—who, at 90 years old, still dances and sings, wiry and cheerful.
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Jonas in the Jungle
2016
Últimas correspondencias
0/0
The last, and previously unreleased, filmed letters exchanged between Jonas Mekas, from his home in Brooklyn, and José Luis Guerin, from his apartment...
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Últimas correspondencias
2011
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
0/0
A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.
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