Jonas Mekas Movies

  • 2010
    New York Conversations

    New York Conversations

    New York Conversations

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    New York Conversations is a documentary made of varied conversations revolving around cinema in New York. These conversations give us the opportunity...

    New York Conversations
  • 2018
    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

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    In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus f...

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
  • 1989
    Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

    Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

    Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

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    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...

    Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
  • 2013
    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

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    Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, Da...

    What Is Cinema?
  • 2008
    Question a Day

    Question a Day

    Question a Day

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

    Question a Day
  • 1999
    Letter to John from Jonas

    Letter to John from Jonas

    Letter to John from Jonas

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    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...

    Letter to John from Jonas
  • 2000
    Requiem for a Manual Typewriter

    Requiem for a Manual Typewriter

    Requiem for a Manual Typewriter

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    A short lecture by Jonas Mekas

    Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
  • 2010
    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

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    A short film portrait of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, talking about the Buddha and the meaning of life.

    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
  • 2019
    Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas

    Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas

    Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas

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    A film tribute to the inspirational Jonas Mekas.

    Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
  • 2018
    Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground

    Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground

    Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground

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    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...

    Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
  • 1967
    Poem Posters

    Poem Posters

    Poem Posters

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

    Poem Posters
  • 2005
    Excavating Taylor Mead

    Excavating Taylor Mead

    Excavating Taylor Mead

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

    Excavating Taylor Mead
  • 2004
    A Letter from Greenpoint

    A Letter from Greenpoint

    A Letter from Greenpoint

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    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...

    A Letter from Greenpoint
  • 2019
    Makeshift (for Mekas)

    Makeshift (for Mekas)

    Makeshift (for Mekas)

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    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...

    Makeshift (for Mekas)
  • 1970
    A Matter of Baobab

    A Matter of Baobab

    A Matter of Baobab

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    International Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante, from Madagascar, poet and publisher; Storm De Hirsch,...

    A Matter of Baobab
  • 2001
    TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penny Arcade June 25, 2001

    TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penny Arcade June 25, 2001

    TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penny Arcade June 25, 2001

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    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...

    TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penny Arcade June 25, 2001
  • 2019
    Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

    Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

    Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

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    An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1...

    Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
  • 2019
    Self Discovery for Social Survival

    Self Discovery for Social Survival

    Self Discovery for Social Survival

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    Self Discovery for Social Survival is a collaborative surf and music film produced by Brooklyn based record label, Mexican Summer and Pilgrim Surf + S...

    Self Discovery for Social Survival
  • 2018
    Nitsch

    Nitsch

    Nitsch

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    A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

    Nitsch
  • 1965
    Dirt

    Dirt

    Dirt

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

    Dirt