Screenplay: Jonas Mekas

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot Five-hour long diary film assembled by hand from an archive of fifty years worth of recordings of his life.

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Peter Kubelka · James Broughton · William S. Burroughs · Robert Frank

Plot "A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends,...

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

Plot Mekas leads an archival avant-garde, a fast-paced parade of 160 underground film people he captured on film over four decades, described as, "160 portraits or rather appearances, sketches and glimpses...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Jonas Mekas · Benn Northover

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast John Kennedy Jr. · Caroline Kennedy · Jacqueline Kennedy

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978.

Direction José Luis Guerín · Jonas Mekas

Cast Jonas Mekas · José Luis Guerín

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Andy Warhol · Allen Ginsberg · John Lennon · Yoko Ono

Plot "The film is made up of my film diaries related to Andy Warhol from the years 1965-1982" - Jonas Mekas

Direction Jonas Mekas · Andrew Solt

Cast John Lennon · Yoko Ono · Phil Spector · George Harrison

Plot It follows the making of Lennon's classic album, 'Imagine', and we are given insight both into his impatient but passionate recording processes, and also into the man himself and his...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Adolfas Mekas · Frances Stillman · Ben Carruthers · Argus Spear Juillard

Plot A depressed woman, Barbara (Frances Stillman), is on the verge of suicide. A man she meets in a church (Adolfas Mekas) and a married couple (Ben Carruthers and Argus Spear...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot An oblique documentary about the LSD group experiments of Timothy Leary, with off screen commentary of a participant and shots of Leary’s house and the surroundings.

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot For this piece, Mekas accumulated footage from several of his films–finished and unfinished–from the past few decades. Mekas lived in SoHo for a long time, and the towers naturally kept...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Raimund Abraham · Marina Abramovic · Björk · Thomas Boujut

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot Images of Moscow filmed in 1971 as part of Mekas’s 'Travel Songs' series.

Direction Jonas Mekas

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot A short film from Jonas Mekas depicting an afternoon in New York of people joining in singing "Hare Hare"

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

Plot "In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it...