Jonas Mekas Movies
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 1966
The Love Merchant
The Love Merchant4.91966HD
Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...
- 1964
The Brig
The Brig6.61964HD
An ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work...
- 1999
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography5.21999HD
Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late sixties and early seventies, I had the fortune...
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life8.21986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 1992
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)5.81992HD
The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978.
- 1966
Cassis
Cassis6.11966HD
"I was visiting Jerome Hill. Jerome loved France, especially Provence. He spent all his summers in Cassis. My window overlooked the sea. I sat in my...
- 2021
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground6.8492021HD
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd...
- 2014
River of Fundament
River of Fundament6.62014HD
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...
- 1978
Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.82000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory8.62022HD
Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a...
- 1981
Strong Medicine
Strong Medicine5.61981HD
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...
- 1990
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections6.51990HD
This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to...
- 2011
3.11 A Sense of Home
3.11 A Sense of Home6.52011HD
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
- 2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV6.92023HD
The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an...
- 2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.52013HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 2013
What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?6.42013HD
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
- 1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol7.31990HD
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture....
- 2022
Fragments of Paradise
Fragments of Paradise6.72022HD
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...