Movies: Jonas Mekas
- 2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV (2023)
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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 artistic canvas and prophesied both the fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding that would aris...
- 2021
The Velvet Underground (2021)
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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 Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage....
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
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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 by chance", without concern for chronological order....
- 1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
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An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s....
- 2014
River of Fundament (2014)
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Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filme...
- 1990
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections (1990)
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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 1990, the film features a cast of counterculture icons including Allen Ginsberg, George Maciunas, John L...
- 2017
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance (2017)
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In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signature diaristic style. Mixing the familiar 16mm film with DV video, he offers a fly-on-the-wall look at intimate moments spent with one of the foremost a...
- 2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2022)
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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 sure and obvious fact. However, much of cinema and our filmed history has been lost forever. Archivist...
- 1972
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
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A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth....
- 2007
365 Day Project (2007)
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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 an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns...
- 2013
What Is Cinema? (2013)
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Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and ot...
- 1972
Imagine (1972)
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A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John's historic 'Imagine' album and Yoko's 'Fly'....
- 1976
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
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Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963....
- 1965
Empire (1965)
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A single static wide shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day....
- 1974
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)
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Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image....
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
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A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....
- 1986
Invocation: Maya Deren (1986)
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Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and her unfinished documentary on Haiti, interviews with St...
- 1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965)
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The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls...
- 2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol (2015)
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Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life....
- 1994
Jonas in the Desert (1994)
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Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive....