Cast: Jonas Mekas

Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos

Cast Parker Tyler · Storm De Hirsch · Amy Taubin · Donald Droll

Plot In 1966, Gregory Markopoulos filmed portraits of notable figures in the New York art world, including painters, poets, critics, filmmakers, and choreographers. Markopoulos populated his Galaxie with a remarkable constellation...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Peter Beard · Ed Emshwiller · Ken Jacobs · Jonas Mekas

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Timothy Leary · Ed Emshwiller · Jack Smith · Mario Montez

Plot Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Jonas Mekas · Benn Northover

Direction José Luis Guerín · Jonas Mekas

Cast Jonas Mekas · José Luis Guerín

Direction Martina Kudlácek

Cast Miriam Arsham · Stan Brakhage · Chao Li Chi · Rita Christiani

Plot Film about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Direction Chuck Smith

Cast Richard Foreman · Jonas Mekas · Amy Taubin

Plot A portrait of Barbara Rubin, a nearly forgotten artist who navigated the New York underground scene in the 60's.

Direction Brook Lapping · Karen Edwards

Cast Jonas Mekas

Plot A unique and compelling account of the day that changed the modern world, captured by ordinary people who chose to pick up their cameras and film that fateful day on...

Direction Gerard Gil Fargas · Jaime Ballada Larrasa

Cast Jean Rouch · Jonas Mekas · Graeme Ferguson

Plot This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an...

Direction Robert Kramer

Cast Tom Griffin · Paul McIsaac · Robert Kramer · Barbara Stone

Plot An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are rhetorical sequences that...

Direction Pip Chodorov

Cast Stan Brakhage · Robert Breer · Pip Chodorov · Stephan Chodorov

Plot A fantastic opportunity to discover experimental film on the big screen, from its avant garde beginnings in Europe after WW1 to some of the US filmmakers that it inspired who...

Direction Chuck Workman

Cast Mike Leigh · Jonas Mekas · David Lynch · Michael Moore

Plot Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Salvador Dalí · Verushka · Taylor Mead · Jonas Mekas

Plot Cinema Verite documentarian Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets documenting staged public art events.

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Jane Holzer · Gerard Malanga · Jonas Mekas · Ivy Nicholson

Direction Andy Warhol

Cast Andy Warhol · Jonas Mekas

Plot A single shot of the Empire State Building. Filmed 25-26 July 1964, from 8:06 pm to 2:42 am, at the offices of the Rockefeller Foundation on the 41st floor of...

Direction K.D. Davison

Cast Jonas Mekas

Plot For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Gregory Corso · Allen Ginsberg · LeRoy Jones-Baraka · Jonas Mekas

Plot This is a video record of the Allen Ginsberg's death and funeral in his apartment in New York.

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Jonas Mekas

Plot Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest brand of color film, Kodak (whose production was discontinued in 2009) and to Jonas Mekas, who managed to...

Direction Michael Snow

Cast Joyce Wieland · Nam June Paik · Jonas Mekas

Direction Gideon Bachman

Cast Allen Ginsberg · Shirley Clarke · Adolfas Mekas · Jonas Mekas

Plot A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew,...