Oona Mekas Movies

  • 2021
    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 2009
    HBO Imagine

    HBO Imagine

    HBO Imagine

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    TV film, nominated for Best Experimental Series in 2010, in Streamy Awards.

    HBO Imagine
  • 2013
    The Gambler

    The Gambler

    The Gambler

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    Paramedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illeg...

    The Gambler
  • 2011
    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories

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    Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acqua...

    Sleepless Nights Stories
  • 2022
    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

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    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 di...

    Fragments of Paradise
  • 2012
    Richard's Wedding

    Richard's Wedding

    Richard's Wedding

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    RICHARD'S WEDDING is an ensemble comedy that explores how the most enduring friendships require a mixture of envy, love and ridiculous egomania disgui...

    Richard's Wedding
  • 2010
    Kelp

    Kelp

    Kelp

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    An idealistic grade school teacher has a fear of speaking up in public (other than in front of her kids). But when she finds out that children in her...

    Kelp
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for...

    365 Day Project
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 2017
    Barracuda

    Barracuda

    Barracuda

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    Sinaloa hitchhikes into Texas to meet Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father. As the two get to know each other, Sinaloa'...

    Barracuda
  • 1979
    Paradise Not Yet Lost

    Paradise Not Yet Lost

    Paradise Not Yet Lost

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

    Paradise Not Yet Lost
  • 1996
    Song of The Salamander

    Song of The Salamander

    Song of The Salamander

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    This film has to do with the early years of my daughter Oona, when she was three or four years old

    Song of The Salamander
  • 2011
    The Future

    The Future

    The Future

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    When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing th...

    The Future