Jonas Mekas

Full filmography

• A Mixtape for Stom (2025)
• Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV (2023) as Self (archive footage)
• Vertigo (2022)
• Fragments of Paradise (2022) as Self (archive footage)
• Jonas Mekas Anthology (2022) as Jonas Mekas
• Notes for a Déjà vu (2022)
• Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2022) as Self
• Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages (2022)
• The Velvet Underground (2021) as Self
• 9/11: Life Under Attack (2021) as Self
• The Invisible Father (2021) as Self (archive footage)
• Back from New York (2021) as Himself
• Tapes (2020)
• Tapes (2020) Director
• Tiny Tim: King for a Day (2020) as Himself
• Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film (2019) as Self
• Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1 (2019) as Self
• Requiem (2019) Director
• Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas (2019)
• Self Discovery for Social Survival (2019) as Narrator (voice)
• Self Discovery for Social Survival (2019) Writer
• Jonas Towards Broadway (2019)
• Makeshift (for Mekas) (2019)
• 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) (2019)
• Elegy for J.M. (2019)
• Cinema and Sanctuary (2019) as Self
• Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party (2019)
• George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus (2018) as Self
• Nitsch (2018)
• Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018)
• Beyond the Bolex (2018) as Self
• Crickets (2017) Director
• From the diaries of a cinema maniac (2017) Director
• From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac (2017) Director
• I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance (2017) as Self
• I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance (2017) Director
• Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas (2016) as Self
• Últimas correspondencias (2016) as Self
• Últimas correspondencias (2016) Director
• I Had Nowhere to Go (2016) as Himself
• Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera (2016) Director
• EXPRMNTL (2016) as himself
• On the Holy Spirit (2016)
• On the Holy Spirit (2016) Director
• Filmstudio, mon amour (2015) as Sé stesso
• All About Bolex (2015)
• All About Bolex (2015) Camera Operator
• All About Bolex (2015) Director
• Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham (2015) Director
• A Report from Venice (2015)
• A Report from Venice (2015) Director
• My Bolexes (2015) Cinematography
• My Bolexes (2015) Director
• A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol (2015) as Self
• Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet (2015)
• New Seasons Movement IV (2015) Director
• River of Fundament (2014) as Wake Guest
• A Cardinal (2014) Director
• My Birthday (2014)
• My Birthday (2014) Director
• Flowers (2014) Director
• Destruction of the Berlin Wall (2014) Director
• Halloween 1990 (2014) Director
• My Conversations on Film (2013) as Himself
• I Leave Chelsea Hotel (2013) Director
• What Is Cinema? (2013) as Self
• The Sixties Quartet (2013) Director
• Jonas in the Jungle (2013) as Self
• 20 Little Films (2012) Director
• Reminiscences from Germany (2012) as Self
• Reminiscences from Germany (2012) Director
• Happy Easter Ride (2012) Director
• Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012) as Jonas Mekas
• Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012) Director
• Maya Deren, Take Zero (2012) as Himself
• Guest (2011) as Self
• 3.11 A Sense of Home Films (2011) as Himself (voice) (segment "Mt. Ventoux")
• 3.11 A Sense of Home Films (2011) Director
• Keep Singing (2011) Director
• Mt. Ventoux (2011) Director
• Re: Maciunas and Fluxus (2011)
• Re: Maciunas and Fluxus (2011) Director
• Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) Director
• My Paris Movie (2011) Director
• My Mars Bar Movie (2011) as himself
• My Mars Bar Movie (2011) Director
• Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) as Himself
• First Class Flight (2011) Director
• Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (2011)
• Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (2011) as Himself
• Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (2011) Director
• Orchard Street (2010) Director
• WTC Haikus (2010) Director
• WTC Haikus (2010) Producer
• WTC Haikus (2010) Director of Photography
• WTC Haikus (2010) Editor
• 42 One Dream Rush (2010) Director
• Visionaries (2010) as Himself
• Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas (2010) as himself
• New York Conversations (2010)
• Lavender (2010) as Self
• Lavender (2010) Director
• Lavender (2010) Director of Photography
• It Came from Kuchar (2009) as Self (archive footage)
• Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days (2009) as Himself
• Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR (2009) Director
• The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery' (2009) as Self
• The Signing (2009)
• Doc (2008) as Himself
• Notes on an American Film Director at Work (2008) as Self
• Notes on an American Film Director at Work (2008) Director
• Notes on an American Film Director at Work (2008) Director of Photography
• Question a Day (2008)
• Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory (2008)
• 365 Day Project (2007) as Self
• 365 Day Project (2007) Director
• Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007 (2007) as Self
• Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007 (2007) Director
• Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha (2007) Director
• Monday Jan. 1, 2007 (2007) Director
• Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007) as Self
• Friday March 16, 2007 (2007) Director
• Saturday Jan. 6 (2007) Cinematography
• Saturday Jan. 6 (2007) Director
• Sunday December 30, 2007 (2007) as Self
• Sunday December 30, 2007 (2007) Director
• Monday April 16, 2007 (2007) Director
• Friday May 4, 2007: John Zorn – Cobra Part Two (2007) Director
• Carl Dreyer (2006) Director
• Bibi Hansen (2006) Director
• Anger Me (2006) as Himself
• Imperfect Film (2006)
• Imperfect Film (2006) Director
• Cinémathèque Française (2006) Director
• John & Yoko Bed-In (2006) Director
• The Song of Central Park (2006) as Himself (voice)
• The Song of Central Park (2006) Director
• A Visit to Timothy Leary (2006) Director
• The Destruction Quartet (2006) Director
• John & Yoko Bed-In (2006) Director
• To Barbara Rubin with Love (2006) Director
• Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master (2006) as Self
• A Visit to Stan Brakhage (2006) Director
• Kreutzer Sonata (2006)
• Kreutzer Sonata (2006) Director
• Elia Kazan (2006) Director
• Andy at Work (2006) Director
• Notes on Marie Menken (2006) as Self
• Dedication to Matsuo Basho (2006) Director
• Poets at the Living Theater (2006) Director
• Phil Glass Plays for Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles (2006) Director
• Meet The Kuchar Brothers (2006)
• Jackie & Lee Fragments of an Unfinished Biography (2006) Director
• End of the Millennium Espresso (2006)
• End of the Millennium Espresso (2006) Director
• Warhol and Maciunas (2006) Director
• Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance (2006) Director
• Jonas' Independence Speech at the Anniversary of the Filmmaker's Cooperative (2006)
• Jonas' Independence Speech at the Anniversary of the Filmmaker's Cooperative (2006) Director
• Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC (2006)
• Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC (2006) Director
• Fluxus on the Hudson (2006) Director
• I Am Searching for Nothing (2006) Director
• Taping for As I was Moving Ahead… (2006)
• Taping for As I was Moving Ahead… (2006) Director
• The Monks of Cinema (2006) Director
• Robert Frank Films (2006) Director
• A Visit to Timothy Leary (2006) Director
• Who Gets to Call It Art? (2006) as Self
• A Visit to Stan Brakhage (2006) Director
• Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí (2006) Director
• Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues (2006) Director
• To John With Love (2006) Director
• Monks of Cinema (2006) Director
• Brakhage Crosses Central Park (2006) Editor
• Brakhage Crosses Central Park (2006) Writer
• Brakhage Crosses Central Park (2006) Cinematography
• Brakhage Crosses Central Park (2006) Director
• Excavating Taylor Mead (2005) as Self
• Notes on Utopia (2005) Director
• The Definition of Insanity (2005)
• Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol (2005)
• Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch (2005) Director
• Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch (2005) Editor
• Kulturplatz (2004) as Self
• A Letter from Greenpoint (2004) as Mekas
• A Letter from Greenpoint (2004) Director
• A Letter from Greenpoint (2004) Writer
• A Letter from Greenpoint (2004) Creator
• Williamsburg, Brooklyn (2003) Director
• A Visit To Hans Richter (2003) Director
• A Visit To Hans Richter (2003) Editor
• Axiom of Choice (2003) as Self
• Not in Our Name (2003) as himself
• Jonas Keeps Shooting Around (2002) as Himself
• Mysteries (2002) Director
• Three Friends (2002) Director
• In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002) as Himself
• Notes in Lifestyle Margins (2002)
• Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten (2001) Director
• A Letter to Penny Arcade (2001)
• A Letter to Penny Arcade (2001) Director
• Diary Entry: Father and Daughter (2001) Director
• Silence, Please (2000) Director
• Silence, Please (2000) Cinematography
• As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) as Narrator (voice)
• As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) Director
• As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) Writer
• As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) Cinematography
• As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) Editor
• Mozart & Elvis (2000) Director
• Requiem for a Manual Typewriter (2000) as Himself
• Requiem for a Manual Typewriter (2000) Director
• Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes (2000) Director
• Laboratorium Anthology (1999) as Himself
• Laboratorium Anthology (1999) Director
• Letter to John from Jonas (1999)
• Letter to John from Jonas (1999) Director
• A Few Notes on Andy's Factory (1999) Director
• This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography (1999) Director
• This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography (1999) Editor
• This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography (1999) Producer
• This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography (1999) Writer
• Song of Avignon (1998) as Self
• Song of Avignon (1998) Director
• Song of Avignon (1998) Writer
• Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97 (1998)
• My Country is Cinema (1998) as Self
• Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998 (1998) Director
• A Poet from the Lower East Side (1997) as Self
• Birth of a Nation (1997) Director
• Birth of a Nation (1997) Cinematography
• Birth of a Nation (1997) Editor
• Birth of a Nation (1997) Writer
• Happy Birthday to John (1997) Director
• Letters from Nowhere (1997) Writer
• Letters from Nowhere (1997) Editor
• Letters from Nowhere (1997) Director
• Nam June Paik's Piano Piece (1997) Director
• Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997) as Self
• Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997) Director
• Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997) Editor
• Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997) Cinematography
• Song of The Salamander (1996) Director
• Celebrate Cinema 101 (1996) Director
• Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October (1996) as Himself
• Michael Snow Up Close (1996) as Himself
• Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old (1996) as Himself
• Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old (1996) Director
• Memories of Frankenstein (1995) Director
• On My Way to Fujiyama I met.. (1995) Director of Photography
• On My Way to Fujiyama I met.. (1995) Director
• Nico Icon (1995) as Self
• Imperfect Three-Image Films (1995) Director
• Jonas in the Desert (1994) as Self
• Jonas Mekas in Budapest (1993) as Himself
• Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress (1993) Director
• The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus (1993) as Self
• Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus) (1992)
• Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus) (1992) Director
• The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained (1992) Director
• Award (1992) as Himself
• Just Visiting This Planet (1991)
• Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum (1991) Director
• Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum (1991) Editor
• Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas (1991) as Himself
• Quartet Number One (1991)
• Quartet Number One (1991) Director
• A Walk (1990) Director
• A Walk (1990) Camera Operator
• Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990) as Self
• Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections (1990) Director
• Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections (1990) Editor
• Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections (1990) Cinematography
• Mob of Angels: Baptism (1990) Director
• Step Across the Border (1990) as Butterfly Wing
• Belladonna (1989)
• Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties (1989) as Self
• Invocation: Maya Deren (1986) as Himself
• He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) as Self (archive footage)
• He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) Director
• He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) Writer
• He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) Cinematography
• He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) Editor
• Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank (1986) as Self
• Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
• Persistence of Vision (1984) as Self
• Street Songs (1983) Director
• Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio (1983) Director
• Erick Hawkins: Excerpts from "Here and Now with Watchers" (1983) Director
• The Song of Stockholm (1981) Director
• Strong Medicine (1981)
• The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1981)
• Travel Songs (1981) Director
• J. Mekas (1980) as Self
• No. 18: Mahagonny (1980) as Self
• Self-Portrait (1980) as Himself
• Self-Portrait (1980) Director
• Robert Haller's Wedding (1980) Director
• ORG (1979) as Self (archive footage)
• Paradise Not Yet Lost (1979) as Himself
• Paradise Not Yet Lost (1979) Director
• Cinématon (1978) as N°1590
• In Between (1978) Director
• Notes for Jerome (1978) as Self
• Notes for Jerome (1978) Director
• Notes for Jerome (1978) Cinematography
• Four Shadows (1978)
• Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) as Self
• Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) Director
• Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) Writer
• Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) Editor
• Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) Cinematography
• Postcard from America (1975)
• ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)
• Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” (1973)
• Going Home (1972) as Himself
• Imagine (1972) as Self
• Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) as Self
• Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) Director
• Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) Cinematography
• Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) Writer
• Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) Editor
• Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden (1972) Director
• Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden (1972) Camera Operator
• Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden (1972) Writer
• Up Your Legs Forever (1971) as Self - Legs
• Journey to Lithuania (1971) as Himself
• The Song of Moscow (1971) Director
• Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971 (1971) as Self
• Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo (1970)
• Filmmakers (1969) as Himself
• Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1969) Director
• Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1969) Cinematography
• Jonas (1968) as Himself
• Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) as Self
• Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) as self
• Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) Director
• Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) Cinematography
• Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) Writer
• Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) Editor
• A Matter of Baobab (1968)
• Underground New York (1968) as Self
• Hare Krishna (1967) Director
• The Song of Avila (1967) as Narrator
• The Song of Avila (1967) Director
• The Song of Assisi (1967) Director
• The Italian Notebook (1967) Director
• Notes on the Circus (1967) Director
• Notes on the Circus (1967) Cinematography