Jonas Mekas Movies

  • 1968
    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
  • 1995
    Imperfect Three-Image Films

    Imperfect Three-Image Films

    Imperfect Three-Image Films

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    Imperfect 3-Image Films | EUA, 1995, 16 mm, pb-cor, 6' ... MOCAtv Presents 'In Focus' - Jonas Mekas - The Artist's Studio by MOCA 9,101 .

    Imperfect Three-Image Films
  • 2011
    Keep Singing

    Keep Singing

    Keep Singing

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    "Occasionally I join my music friends Dalius Naujo and Kenny Wollesen at Zebulon, a French music bistro in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They are great...

    Keep Singing
  • 2010
    Orchard Street

    Orchard Street

    Orchard Street

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    Footage of Orchard Street from 1953 and 1975, put together for an opening of James Fuentes Gallery in 2010 on Delancey Street. You see the commercial...

    Orchard Street
  • 1970
    Fragments of an Unfinished Biography of Jackie & Lee

    Fragments of an Unfinished Biography of Jackie & Lee

    Fragments of an Unfinished Biography of Jackie & Lee

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    This is footage from an unfinished film biography of Jackie Onasis and Lee Radziwill that I was in the process of making in 1972, but which was never...

    Fragments of an Unfinished Biography of Jackie & Lee
  • 1981
    The Song of Stockholm

    The Song of Stockholm

    The Song of Stockholm

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    Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels in 1981, this short captures scenes from Stockholm. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation...

    The Song of Stockholm
  • 1978
    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

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    Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...

    Four Shadows
  • 2007
    Sunday December 30, 2007

    Sunday December 30, 2007

    Sunday December 30, 2007

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    I close the 365 Day Project and announce the 1001 Nights Project ---HASTA LA VISTA! ---

    Sunday December 30, 2007
  • 2000
    Silence, Please

    Silence, Please

    Silence, Please

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    "Made for a billboard project in Luxembourg, a project that never became reality, this video is an exercise in silence and sound." - Jonas Mekas

    Silence, Please
  • 2009
    Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR

    Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR

    Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR

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    A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the...

    Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR
  • 1967
    The Song of Italy

    The Song of Italy

    The Song of Italy

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    Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside. The...

    The Song of Italy
  • 1980
    Robert Haller's Wedding

    Robert Haller's Wedding

    Robert Haller's Wedding

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

    Robert Haller's Wedding
  • 2017
    Crickets

    Crickets

    Crickets

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    Crickets
  • 2003
    Not in Our Name

    Not in Our Name

    Not in Our Name

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    Not in Our Name
  • 2015
    My Bolexes

    My Bolexes

    My Bolexes

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    Jonas Mekas shows us the five Bolex cameras that he used to make all his films, 1950-2000. They also helped other filmmakers (Jack Smith, Gregory...

    My Bolexes
  • 2012
    Happy Easter Ride

    Happy Easter Ride

    Happy Easter Ride

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    Shortfilm in which Mekas follows a band on a boat ride on Easter Day.

    Happy Easter Ride
  • 2017
    From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac

    From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac

    From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac

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    Video diary film by Jonas Mekas, premiered at the British Film Institute on December 5, 2017.

    From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac
  • 2014
    Halloween 1990

    Halloween 1990

    Halloween 1990

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    Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

    Halloween 1990
  • 2014
    My Birthday

    My Birthday

    My Birthday

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    Jonas Mekas talks about December 24th, his birthday.

    My Birthday
  • 1975
    Postcard from America

    Postcard from America

    Postcard from America

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

    Postcard from America