Jonas Mekas Movies

Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography...

The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.

Jonas Mekas’s film captures The Living Theatre’s stage production of The Brig, an unflinching portrait of life inside a U.S. Marine Corps...

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...

Screen test for Andy Warhol, 1966

An autobiographical diary film assembled from unused footage shot between 1960 and 2000, interwoven with reflections, music, and glimpses of family,...

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the...

Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno.

Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.

In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signature diaristic style. Mixing the...

Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exceptional participation of Ultraviolet,...

"STREET SONGS is a 1966 performance, in France, of a section of the Living Theater's 'Mysteries and Smaller Pieces.' Based on a chance-determined...

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

In 1969, Leonardi traveled to the United States to write a book about the New American Cinema. Using a Super-8 camera, he made a film-diary of this...

A newsreel of Jonas Mekas shooting his filmed version of The Brig on the set of the Living Theatre production.

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...