Jonas Mekas Movies

  • 1995
    On My Way to Fujiyama I met..

    On My Way to Fujiyama I met..

    On My Way to Fujiyama I met..

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    Images from two trips to Japan, 1983 and 1991. With music – percussion – by Dalius Naujokaitis. A song, or maybe a duet between images...

    On My Way to Fujiyama I met..
  • 2006
    Warhol and Maciunas

    Warhol and Maciunas

    Warhol and Maciunas

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    Consists of images of the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum in May of 1971. It also includes a George Maciunas dumpling party on 80 Wooster...

    Warhol and Maciunas
  • 2006
    Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí

    Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí

    Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí

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    This was filmed on January 24, 1964, during Prof. Oster's demonstration of moiré patterns. He is shown with Salvador Dalí. From the...

    Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí
  • 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
  • 2006
    The Song of Central Park

    The Song of Central Park

    The Song of Central Park

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    During the course of a single winter’s day, January 16, 1966, Jonas Mekas captured impressionistic glimpses of people playing and working in...

    The Song of Central Park
  • 1963
    Hallelujah the Hills

    Hallelujah the Hills

    Hallelujah the Hills

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    Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

    Hallelujah the Hills
  • 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
  • 2019
    Elegy for J.M.

    Elegy for J.M.

    Elegy for J.M.

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    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...

    Elegy for J.M.
  • 2015
    Filmstudio, mon amour

    Filmstudio, mon amour

    Filmstudio, mon amour

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    Filmstudio, mon amour
  • 1983
    Erick Hawkins: Excerpts from

    Erick Hawkins: Excerpts from "Here and Now with Watchers"

    Erick Hawkins: Excerpts from "Here and Now with Watchers"

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    In 1963, a magazine called Show commissioned me to make a promotion film for them. I conceived the film as a film periodical devoted to the arts. I...

    Erick Hawkins: Excerpts from
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    New Seasons Movement IV

    New Seasons Movement IV

    New Seasons Movement IV

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    Gidon Kremer, along with his chamber orchestra, the Kremerata Baltica, wanted to build a bridge between different art forms and musical worlds,...

    New Seasons Movement IV
  • 2015
    Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet

    Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet

    Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet

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    This documentary cracks open the meticulously constructed façade of Andy Warhol, exposing the complex figure behind the soup cans and...

    Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
  • 2010
    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

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    A short film portrait of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, talking about the Buddha and the meaning of life.

    Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
  • 1967
    The Song of Avila

    The Song of Avila

    The Song of Avila

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    Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Avila in 1967, this short records his impressions of the city, inspired by Meher Baba’s teaching...

    The Song of Avila
  • 2009
    Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

    Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

    Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

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    Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

    Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
  • 2007
    Monday April 16, 2007

    Monday April 16, 2007

    Monday April 16, 2007

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    John Zorn with his band at Anthology Film Archves performs COBRA, part one.

    Monday April 16, 2007
  • 2007
    Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha

    Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha

    Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha

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    Pedro, at Nick Cave's favorite caipirinha bar in São Paolo, gives a lesson in how to prepare the classic Brazilian drink.

    Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha
  • 2022
    Notes for a Déjà vu

    Notes for a Déjà vu

    Notes for a Déjà vu

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    The immediately recognisable voice and sweet wistful words of the late legend of the avantgarde, Jonas Mekas, is heard over the images of an imagined...

    Notes for a Déjà vu