Jonas Mekas Movie Trailers
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The Song of Moscow Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to the Soviet Union in 1971, this short presents a personal record of Moscow.
Jonas Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
A verité portrait of Jonas Mekas making his daily rounds, JONAS shows us the underground impresario attending a peace rally, filming in Central Park, typing up notes at the Village Voice and projecting his latest rushes at the Film-Makers' Cooperative.
Requiem Trailer (2019)
01 November 2019
A meditative tribute to Verdi’s masterpiece and an homage to beloved filmmaker Jonas Mekas.
Hallelujah the Hills Trailer (1963)
16 December 1963
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 sketches, flashbacks and homages.
Makeshift (for Mekas) Trailer (2019)
25 May 2019
Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text.
A Matter of Baobab Trailer (1968)
12 January 1968
International Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante, from Madagascar, poet and publisher; Storm De Hirsch, from Holland, poetess, seer and film-maker; Pola Chapelle, from Tierra del Fuego, singer and motel operator; Adolfas Mekas, from Lapland, basket weaver and film director; Contessa Angela Maria Andrecci di Castiglione, from Italy, opera singer.
Reminiscences from Germany Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
A narrative presented non-chronologically of Jonas Mekas's time in German forced labour camps and displaced person camps from 1944 to 1949, in which he quotes his diaries, as well as the German wartime writer Wolfgang Borchert.
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol Trailer (1964)
07 December 1964
In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come on stage and hand him the award.
I Leave Chelsea Hotel Trailer (2013)
12 February 2013
Filmed in 1967 (camera: Gideon Bachmann), edited in 2009. I exit Chelsea Hotel and proceed towards Seventh Avenue where I catch a taxi.
Shooting Guns Trailer (1966)
01 January 1966
Shot in 1960 on the set of Jonas Mekas' 'Guns of the Trees'. Dedicated to Ron Rice.
The Song of Italy Trailer (1967)
31 December 1967
Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside.
Visionaries Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
Documentary on Jonas Mekas and the American avant-garde cinema, with several new interviews and appearances and over 100 excerpts and examples.
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” Trailer (1973)
26 March 1973
During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers.
Friday March 16, 2007 Trailer (2007)
03 February 2007
On January 1st of 2007, Mekas began his epic "365" project inspired by the Italian poet Petrarca and his Canzoniere.
Imperfect Three-Image Films Trailer (1995)
03 July 1995
Imperfect 3-Image Films | EUA, 1995, 16 mm, pb-cor, 6' ... MOCAtv Presents 'In Focus' - Jonas Mekas - The Artist's Studio by MOCA 9,101 .
Jonas Mekas in Budapest Trailer (1993)
01 November 1993
Experimental movie about Jonas Mekas spending time in Budapest.
Letters from Nowhere Trailer (1997)
25 December 1997
A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.
Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971 Trailer (1971)
15 April 1971
Jonas Mekas visit. Harry comes by before Ricky visit. 1. 12 p.m. April 15th -- Jonas dares to come by but won't talk.
Jonas in the Jungle Trailer (2013)
03 October 2013
An essayistic film journey with Jonas Mekas, the living legend of avant-garde cinema—who, at 90 years old, still dances and sings, wiry and cheerful.
Jonas Mekas Anthology Trailer (2022)
03 September 2022
A portrait movie of the Godfather of American avantgarde cinema. Through material filmed primarily in the 1990s by both the directors and Jonas Mekas himself, a new insight appears on the filmmaking Lithuanian New Yorker who doesn't consider himself someone who makes films but a filmer.
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
Friends and colleagues (including Yoko Ono and Merce Cunningham) of Nam June Paik share their thoughts about the groundbreaking multimedia artist in this series of candid interviews filmed by Skip Blumberg at Paik's memorial service.
Silence, Please Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
"Made for a billboard project in Luxembourg, a project that never became reality, this video is an exercise in silence and sound.
Diary Entry: Father and Daughter Trailer (2001)
07 March 2001
Diary Entry: Father and Daughter (Shiva and Rumple) March 7, 2001.
Imperfect Film Trailer (2006)
01 November 2006
This is a film made with outtakes from my other films and some found footage. It includes great found footage with monkeys.
Axiom of Choice Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait, Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian, their heads rotating in radiant chiaroscuro against a black ground.
Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97 Trailer (1998)
08 October 1998
Jonas Mekas came to Paris in October 1997 for the video release of his film Walden. I filmed the event and its twists and turns at the Cinémathèque, the Fnac, the École des Beaux-Arts, and in a few bars and restaurants.
Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten Trailer (2001)
01 October 2001
The title comes from a poem of a German poet, Heine. The 9/11 event was so beyond my comprehension – you can understand and react to a death of one, or two persons‚ but I could not react to the death of 2500 people – it was an abstraction, a fairy tale – that’s why I framed my 9/11 film (shot from my roof) with the fairytale, with the image watching this story, the story of 9/11.
The Invisible Father Trailer (2021)
19 March 2021
In the 1960s, beat poet and experimental filmmaker Piero Heliczer helped shape New American Cinema, and was enmeshed with iconic filmmaker Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground at the very start of their careers.
Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October Trailer (1996)
31 December 1996
Jonas, Birgit and Anja are leaving for the Brooklyn Bridge. By taxi, buying beer, drinking in the street, joking, running, dancing on the bridge.
Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
An historic event: Peter Kubelka gives a lecture at the Library of Congress.