Screenplay: Jonas Mekas

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jonas Mekas. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Notes for Jerome

1978 · Documentary · 45 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Jerome Hill

Plot Footage from three distinct visits to the home of Jerome Hill make up this tribute to him. Mekas visited Hill in 1966 with P. Adams Sitney. He then returned briefly...

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Notes On An American Film Director At Work: Martin Scorsese

2005 · Documentary · 62 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Martin Scorsese

Plot "I originally met Martin Scorsese when he was still a film student at the New York University. He used to come to my film screenings. But our real friendship began...

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My Paris Movie

2011 · Documentary · 159 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot For some time I had been thinking about doing something with my Paris footage, of which I have many many hours. So [curator Danièle Hibon’s] suggestion [to make a new...

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The Song of Stockholm (S)

1981 · Documentary · 5 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.

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Self Portrait (S)

1980 · Documentary · 20 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Jonas Mekas

Plot Jonas Mekas reflects on his life.

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The Song of Italy (S)

1967 · Documentary · 15 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot Part of the series of Travel Songs by Jonas Mekas.

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The Song of Assisi (S)

1967 · Documentary · 2 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot Part of the series of Travel Songs by Jonas Mekas.

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Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio (S)

1983 · Documentary · 23 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot Made 1965 / 1983 With Kenneth King and Phoebe Neville. “Kenneth King’s Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio (1964) is an essay in Pop Art style, in which all the elements listed in the...

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Paradise Not Yet Lost, or Oona's Third Year

1980 · Documentary · 96 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Jonas Mekas · Peter Kubelka · Hermann Nitsch

Plot The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona’s third year.

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Street Songs (S)

1983 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot "I filmed The Living Theatre's 'Mysteries' in 1966, at the Festival de Cassis, organized by Jerome Hill. I didn't like the results and I never released the film, but I...

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In Between

1978 · Documentary · 53 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

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Robert Haller's Wedding (S)

1980 · Documentary · 3 min. · United States

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Robert Haller · Amy Greenfield

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

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