Jonas Mekas Movies

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

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...

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

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to...

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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