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- DirectorJonas MekasStarsAdolfas MekasFrances StillmanBen CarruthersA depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living.
- DirectorJonas MekasJudith MalinaStarsWarren FinnertyJim AndersonHenry HowardA 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 details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
- DirectorJonas MekasJonas Mekas' elegant report on a Poughkeepsie police department's raid of Timothy Leary's base-of-operations amply demonstrates the political potential of his diary filmmaking. The film's protest is lodged in the disjunction between sound and image, with Mekas' intimate, idyllic footage of the Millbrook property undercutting audio of the sheriff's fear-mongering rationales. The interview was itself an act of subterfuge as East Village Other writer Bob Simmons posed as a buttoned-up reporter from the solidly mainstream Look to get his exclusive. As Simmons simply gives the sheriff enough rope to hang himself, Mekas' montage leaves the outrage to the audience. - Max Goldberg
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsTimothy LearyEd EmshwillerFranz FuenstlerA chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsJonas MekasAdolfas MekasPola ChapelleFilmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsPeter BeardEd EmshwillerKen JacobsArtist-writer-poet-filmmaker Jonas Mekas documents his early years building a life and discovering an arts community in New York.
- DirectorJonas MekasFootage from 1964-1968 that did not find its way into the Walden reels is joined in this classic period piece. Mostly centered in New York, it also includes travel footage.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsPeter KubelkaJonas MekasOona MekasThe film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsKenneth AngerRobert BreerAlberto CavalcantiA film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
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- DirectorJonas MekasStarsAndy WarholJohn CaleAllen GinsbergThe pioneer of the American diary film presents footage of his avant garde colleague shot between 1963 and 1990.
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- DirectorJonas MekasStarsChantal AkermanKenneth AngerMichel AuderMekas leads an archival avant-garde, a fast-paced parade of 160 underground film people he captured on film over four decades, described as, "160 portraits or rather appearances, sketches and glimpses of avant-garde, independent filmmakers and film activists between 1955 and 1996. Why 'Birth of a Nation'? Because the film independents IS a nation in itself. We are surrounded by commercial cinema Nation same way as the indigenous people of the United States or of any other country are surrounded by the Ruling Powers. We are the invisible, but essential nation of cinema. We are the cinema."
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsAngus MacLiseJonas MekasEvocation of painful memories of Jonas Mekas.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsJonas MekasStan BrakhageRobert BreerDirector Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.
- DirectorJonas MekasFootage shot in 1950, this is the first movie shoot by Jonas Mekas when he came in New York, in the neighborhood of Brooklin. This is the first time he shoot his new home with his first Bolex.
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- DirectorJonas MekasStarsFriedl BondyJames BroughtonWilliam S. BurroughsA motion picture composed of brief scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000.