Jonas Mekas Filmes

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel.

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

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". Part of the cycle of The First 40.

Scenes from the life and work of independent film-makers. Includes Douglas Gordon, Peter Hutton, Ken Jacobs, Alexander Kluge, Harmony Korine, Peter...

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

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

This is a film portrait of Dr. Jung at work. It was filmed by Jerome Hill in 1950 at the home of Carl Gustav Jung, and was edited by Jonas Mekas in...

A portrait of Jonas Mekas.

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...

Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.

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

I close the 365 Day Project and announce the 1001 Nights Project ---HASTA LA VISTA! ---

John Zorn with his band at Anthology Film Archves performs COBRA, part one.

I made this little film portrait of Dreyer on the 17th of September 1965, in New York. He said he was very interested in what I was trying to do in...

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...

During the course of a single winter’s day, January 16, 1966, Jonas Mekas captured impressionistic glimpses of people playing and working in...

Footage of Orchard Street from 1953 and 1975, put together for an opening of James Fuentes Gallery in 2010 on Delancey Street. You see the commercial...

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

A very rare film "manifesto" by Mekas made in 1968 in New York, in the activist spirit of positive revolutionary change; his source for inspiration...

This was filmed on November 1, 1997 at Anthology Film Archives during a tribute to Joseph Beuys. Nam June Paik destroys a piano.