Jonas Mekas Movies

The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.

An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.

After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could...

Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exceptional participation of Ultraviolet,...

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...

Alexander Kluge - October 22 2016

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for...

Provides a rare glimpse into the world of George and Mike Kuchar, underground filmmaking brothers from the Bronx. Get to know the Kuchars, casually...

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist....

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

"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....

In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signature diaristic style. Mixing the...

Part Two of John Zorn's COBRA (see April 16 for Part One).

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...

This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew...

Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs. Along the way he...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs