Movies
- 2021
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground6.862021HD
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...
- 2008
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Notes on an American Film Director at Work5.62008HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, through various locations during the shooting of his...
- 2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory8.8332022HD
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...
- 1966
The Love Merchant
The Love Merchant4.91966HD
Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...
- 1965
Empire
Empire4.21965HD
Filmed by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building, “Empire” explores the passage of time without the use of characters...
- 2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV6.92023HD
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...
- 2022
Fragments of Paradise
Fragments of Paradise6.52022HD
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...
- 2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.52013HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.62000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 1966
Cassis
Cassis6.11966HD
"I was visiting Jerome Hill. Jerome loved France, especially Provence. He spent all his summers in Cassis. My window overlooked the sea. I sat in my...
- 2010
42 One Dream Rush
42 One Dream Rush02010HD
Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known...
- 2011
My Paris Movie
My Paris Movie02011HD
For some time I had been thinking about doing something with my Paris footage, of which I have many many hours. So [curator Danièle...
- 1978
Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
- 2014
River of Fundament
River of Fundament6.22014HD
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...
- 2013
What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?6.42013HD
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
- 1964
The Brig
The Brig6.61964HD
An ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work...
- 1972
Imagine
Imagine71972HD
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'...
- 2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
Sleepless Nights Stories5.72011HD
Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old...
- 2018
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground02018HD
The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double...
- 1992
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)5.81992HD
The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978.