Jonas Mekas Movies

Filmed during a visit to Jerome Hill in Provence, Jonas Mekas sets his Bolex to capture a single day overlooking the port of Cassis. Shot frame by...

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

“Drawing on his personal archives, Mekas has assembled a Fluxus vaudeville starring Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, and the late Nam June Paik. Most of...

Created by Anthology’s Archivist John Klacsmann, the visual track of Elegy for J.M. is the result of an encoding malfunction while preparing a...

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

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

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

A tiny part of our (homonymous) homage for the minors master.

“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...

Self Discovery for Social Survival is a collaborative surf and music film produced by Brooklyn based record label, Mexican Summer and Pilgrim Surf +...

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

Alexander Kluge - October 22 2016

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

Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life.

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

The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York. This...

As I was preparing the soundtrack from my film As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, I was video-taping myself doing it....

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert...

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

Jonas Mekas reflects on a 1966 trip to Avignon that offered solace during a period of personal crisis. Combining diary texts read by Angus MacLise...