Jonas Mekas Movies

Part of Jonas Mekas' 365 days series, Mekas takes a walk in a winter storm and meets two strangers trying to save a stuck sparrow.

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

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

"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....

A record of a journey through Italy, filmed in 1967.

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

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

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

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

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

"It came to my mind that I should try and locate George Capsis"

On January 17th, downtown New york at PROTOTYPE Festival, I attended N.Y. premiere of a Lithuanian opera

Projecting films at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque on Bruce Conner, Andy Warhol and Harry Smith