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Jonas Mekas (12-24-1922 - 1-23-2019) was born in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. In 1944, he and his brother Adolfas were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Elmshorn, Germany. After the War he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz. At the end of 1949 the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York City, where they settled down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Two months after his arrival in New York he borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. He soon got deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement. In 1954, together with his brother, he started Film Culture magazine, which soon became the most important film publication in the US. In 1958 he began his legendary Movie Journal column in the Village Voice. In 1962 he founded the Film-Makers' Cooperative, and in 1964 the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema, and a screening venue. During all this time he continued writing poetry and making films. To this date he has published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, which have been translated into over a dozen languages. His Lithuanian poetry is now part of Lithuanian classic literature and his films can be found in leading museums around the world. He is largely credited for developing the diaristic forms of cinema. Mekas has also been active as an academic, teaching at the New School for Social Research, the International Center for Photography, Cooper Union, New York University, and MIT. Mekas' film The Brig was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. Other films include Walden (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), Lost Lost Lost (1975), Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), As I was Moving Ahead I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), Letter from Greenpoint (2005), Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) and Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man. In 2007, he completed a series of 365 short films released on the internet -- one film every day -- and since then has continued to share new work on his website. Since 2000, Mekas has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at the Serpentine Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Moderna Museet (Stockholm), PS1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA, Documenta of Kassel, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Venice Biennale.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1922-12-24
- event Death Date 2019-01-23
- school Known for: Directing
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Jonas Mekas
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My Country is Cinema
1998-01-01
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Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
2019-04-08
6.8
The Velvet Underground
2021-10-15
7.8
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022-08-12
0
Notes for a Déjà vu
2022-02-21
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Cinema and Sanctuary
2019-06-20
5.6
Strong Medicine
1981-11-25
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Persistence of Vision
1984-01-01
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All About Bolex
2015-01-01
0
A Report from Venice
2015-06-01
6.9
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023-03-24
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Back from New York
2021-10-25
6
Michael Snow Up Close
1996-01-01
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The Signing
2009-01-01
8.8
Anger Me
2006-10-23
0
Lavender
2010-06-01
6
My Birthday
2014-12-23
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Home Movies 1971-81
1985-01-01
5.8
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
1992-12-31
7.6
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000-11-05
6.5
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
2012-12-01
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A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997-01-01
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Belladonna
1989-05-22
5
Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
2002-08-01
5.9
River of Fundament
2014-02-12
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Vertigo
2022-07-13
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Galaxie
1966-09-03
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Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas
1991-01-01
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Jonas Mekas Anthology
2022-09-03
6.5
Fragments of Paradise
2022-08-31
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Notes for Jerome
1978-07-03
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Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022-09-21
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The Lamb
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J. Mekas
1980-01-01
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Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
1970-01-01
6
Guest
2011-03-25
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Viva Jonas!
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Doc
2008-12-09
3
Just Visiting This Planet
1991-09-05
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Jonas
1968-01-01
5
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012-01-30
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The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
2009-01-01
7
Four Shadows
1978-10-03
9
Diane the Zebra Woman
1962-01-01
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On the Holy Spirit
2016-10-22
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I Had Nowhere to Go
2016-08-04
7.4
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002-03-15
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Reminiscences from Germany
2012-01-01
6.4
The Song of Avila
1967-12-31
8.2
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986-02-22
7.9
Step Across the Border
1990-05-18
5.2
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997-07-03
10
The Definition of Insanity
2005-12-10
8
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017-09-01
6
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1981-08-01
4.4
The Love Merchant
1966-01-01
7
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972-08-02
5.4
Notes on Marie Menken
2006-04-20
5.4
Going Home
1972-10-04
6.6
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007-04-11
5
Salvador Dalí at Work
2006-11-11
5.5
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980-09-13
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Jonas in the Brig
1965-09-10
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Underground New York
1968-01-01
4.5
ORG
1979-08-31
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Self-Portrait
1980-06-07
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Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
2007-01-09
3.2
My Conversations on Film
2013-10-13
0
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006-01-01
5.5
Jonas in the Desert
1994-01-01
6.8
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011-07-24
7.9
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974-11-05
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Filmmakers
1969-01-01
0
Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
1996-01-01
7
Journey to Lithuania
1971-01-01
0
Laboratorium Anthology
1999-01-01
5
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986-04-24
7
It Came from Kuchar
2009-09-22
6
Visionaries
2010-01-01
7
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964-12-07
0
New York Conversations
2010-09-21
7
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
2018-02-21
0
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
1989-01-01
6.5
What Is Cinema?
2013-09-06
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Question a Day
2008-01-01
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Letter to John from Jonas
1999-03-06
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Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
2000-02-09
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Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
2010-10-14
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Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
2019-01-31
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Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018-05-02
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Poem Posters
1967-05-19
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Excavating Taylor Mead
2005-10-08
0
A Letter from Greenpoint
2004-04-22
6
Makeshift (for Mekas)
2019-05-25
0
A Matter of Baobab
1968-01-12
6
A Letter to Penny Arcade
2001-06-23
7.2
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019-06-05
5.4
Self Discovery for Social Survival
2019-06-15
0
Nitsch
2018-01-29
8
Dirt
1965-09-25
5
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015-08-25
6.5
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009-12-31
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Award
1992-01-01
8
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965-11-28
7.5
Nico Icon
1995-09-08
7.3
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990-07-18
6.7
Who Gets to Call It Art?
2006-02-01
0
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019-11-03
0
My Mars Bar Movie
2011-10-06
7
Imagine
1972-12-23
4.3
Cinématon
1978-12-20
2.9
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008-01-01
0
Paradise Not Yet Lost
1979-07-03
7
Beyond the Bolex
2018-11-08
10
365 Day Project
2007-12-31
4.2
Empire
1965-03-06
7
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976-09-14
7.2
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968-03-01
0
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011-01-01
7.5
Quartet Number One
1991-07-03
7.4
Song of Avignon
1998-07-03
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Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas
1966-12-31
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Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October
1996-12-31
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Not in Our Name
2003-12-31
5.6
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008-01-01
0
The Song of Central Park
2006-11-11
7
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011-04-09
0
Tapes
2020-09-14
5
Postcard from America
1975-01-01
6.5
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011-09-11
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3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019-01-01
0
Jonas Towards Broadway
2019-01-01
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Axiom of Choice
2003-01-01
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Elegy for J.M.
2019-12-16
0
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016-05-29
6.1
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
2020-08-20
0
Cinématon n°1590 : Jonas Mekas
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Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986-01-01
0
EXPRMNTL
2016-10-08
4.8
The Sin of Jesus
1961-12-10
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The Invisible Father
2021-03-19
0
Sunday December 30, 2007
2007-12-30
7.2
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968-03-01
0
Notes in Lifestyle Margins
2002-03-11
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Jonas Mekas in Budapest
1993-11-01
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Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
2005-11-25
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Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
2006-01-01
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Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2015-06-19
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The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
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Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971
1971-04-15
0
Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97
1998-10-08
0
A Mixtape for Stom
2025-09-20
10
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015-10-21
0
Shooting Guns
1966-01-01
0
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973-03-26
0
Jonas in the Jungle
2013-10-03
0
Últimas correspondencias
2016-01-01
6
Kulturplatz
2004-09-01
movie_edit Directing
6
Friday March 16, 2007
2007-02-03
6
Cassis
1966-01-01
6
Cassis
1966-01-01
6
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2006-11-01
6
My Birthday
2014-12-23
6
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
2014-11-09
6
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968-03-01
6
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000-11-05
6
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
1992-12-31
6
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976-09-14
6
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972-08-02
6
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986-02-22
6
WTC Haikus
2010-01-25
6
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011-04-09
6
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
2012-12-01
6
The Brig
1964-09-20
6
Guns of the Trees
1961-02-28
6
Guns of the Trees
1961-02-28
6
Senseless
1962-01-01
6
Notes on the Circus
1967-05-23
6
Cassis
1966-01-01
6
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011-12-15
6
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
1999-10-12
6
Happy Birthday to John
1997-10-09
6
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
1990-06-01
6
Silence, Please
2000-01-01
6
Silence, Please
2000-01-01
6
My Bolexes
2015-01-01
6
My Bolexes
2015-01-01
6
Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes
2000-01-01
6
Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance
2006-11-01
6
Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR
2009-02-06
6
John & Yoko Bed-In
2006-11-01
6
To Barbara Rubin with Love
2006-11-01
6
The Sixties Quartet
2013-01-01
6
Paradise Not Yet Lost
1979-07-03
6
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964-12-07
6
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997-07-03
6
Notes for Jerome
1978-07-03
6
A Visit to Stan Brakhage
2006-11-01
6
A Visit to Timothy Leary
2006-11-01
6
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969-01-01
6
Dedication to Matsuo Basho
2006-11-01
6
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2003-01-01
6
Three Friends
2002-01-01
6
Quartet Number One
1991-07-03
6
In Between
1978-06-03
6
Travel Songs
1981-07-03
6
Hare Krishna
1967-02-02
6
Song of Avignon
1998-07-03
6
Imperfect Three-Image Films
1995-07-03
6
Report from Millbrook
1966-09-06
6
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
1999-10-12
6
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
1999-10-12
6
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000-11-05
6
Notes for Jerome
1978-07-03
6
A Letter from Greenpoint
2004-04-22
6
Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum
1991-08-06
6
Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
2007-01-09
6
Celebrate Cinema 101
1996-01-01
6
Bibi Hansen
2006-11-01
6
All About Bolex
2015-01-01
6
All About Bolex
2015-01-01
6
A Report from Venice
2015-06-01
6
First Class Flight
2011-01-01
6
Carl Dreyer
2006-11-01
6
Monday Jan. 1, 2007
2007-01-01
6
Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham
2015-03-22
6
Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha
2007-01-04
6
A Walk
1990-12-15
6
A Walk
1990-12-15
6
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011-09-11
6
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008-01-01
6
Reminiscences from Germany
2012-01-01
6
Self-Portrait
1980-06-07
6
Nam June Paik's Piano Piece
1997-12-31
6
Poets at the Living Theater
2006-11-01
6
Warhol and Maciunas
2006-11-01
6
Bed-In: John Lennon & Yoko Ono
6
Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998
1998-12-31
6
Andy at Work
2006-11-01
6
Film Magazine of the Arts
1965-07-02
6
Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06
6
Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio
1983-10-18
6
Robert Frank Films
2006-11-01
6
20 Little Films
2012-02-13
6
The Italian Notebook
1967-12-31
6
The Song of Moscow
1971-01-01
6
The Song of Avila
1967-12-31
6
Street Songs
1983-10-18
6
Mob of Angels: Baptism
1990-01-01
6
Salvador Dalí at Work
2006-11-11
6
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969-01-01
6
Notes on the Circus
1967-05-23
6
Notes on the Circus
1967-05-23
6
Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06
6
Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06
6
Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06
6
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997-07-03
6
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997-07-03
6
Robert Haller's Wedding
1980-01-01
6
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000-11-05
6
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000-11-05
6
Song of Avignon
1998-07-03
6
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017-09-01
6
Hallelujah the Hills
1963-12-16
6
The Brig
1964-09-20
6
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986-02-22
6
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968-03-01
6
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968-03-01
6
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968-03-01
6
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986-02-22
6
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986-02-22
6
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976-09-14
6
Guns of the Trees
1961-02-28
6
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976-09-14
6
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972-08-02
6
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976-09-14
6
Guns of the Trees
1961-02-28
6
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972-08-02
6
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972-08-02
6
Salvador Dalí at Work
2006-11-11
6
Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
1996-01-01
6
Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten
2001-10-01
6
Erick Hawkins: Excerpts from "Here and Now with Watchers"
1983-01-01
6
The Song of Assisi
1967-12-31
6
The Song of Stockholm
1981-01-01
6
The Song of Italy
1967-12-31
6
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
1990-06-01
6
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
1990-06-01
6
Cinémathèque Française
2006-11-01
6
For Life, Against the War
1967-01-30
6
42 One Dream Rush
2010-09-15
6
Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum
1991-08-06
6
Laboratorium Anthology
1999-01-01
6
Lavender
2010-06-01
6
Lavender
2010-06-01
6
On the Holy Spirit
2016-10-22
6
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
2006-11-01
6
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
2006-11-01
6
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
2006-11-01
6
Brakhage Crosses Central Park
2006-11-01
6
365 Day Project
2007-12-31
6
The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's Convention, NYC, 1966
1966-01-14
6
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964-12-07
6
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964-12-07
6
I Leave Chelsea Hotel
2013-02-12
6
When
6
WTC Haikus
2010-01-25
6
WTC Haikus
2010-01-25
6
WTC Haikus
2010-01-25
6
From the Notebooks of a Cinema Maniac
2017-12-05
6
Letter to John from Jonas
1999-03-06
6
The Destruction Quartet
2006-10-10
6
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
2000-02-09
6
Film Magazine of the Arts
1965-07-02
6
Peter Kubelka at the Library of Congress
1993-01-01
6
Film Magazine of the Arts
1965-07-02
6
A Letter from Greenpoint
2004-04-22
6
A Letter from Greenpoint
2004-04-22
6
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
1999-10-12
6
A Letter to Penny Arcade
2001-06-23
6
Marcel Hanoun wedding
6
A Visit To Hans Richter
2003-12-31
6
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
2005-12-31
6
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
2005-12-31
6
A Visit To Hans Richter
2003-12-31
6
Monks of Cinema
2006-11-01
6
Halloween 1990
2014-01-01
6
Notes on Utopia
2005-01-01
6
Requiem
2019-11-01
6
On My Way to Fujiyama I met..
1995-12-31
6
Mt. Ventoux
2011-12-31
6
The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained
1992-10-28
6
On My Way to Fujiyama I met..
1995-12-31
6
My Mars Bar Movie
2011-10-06
6
Self Discovery for Social Survival
2019-06-15
6
From the diaries of a cinema maniac
2017-01-27
6
Memories of Frankenstein
1995-01-01
6
Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera
2016-05-08
6
Empire
1965-03-06
6
Keep Singing
2011-01-01
6
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011-01-01
6
Salvador Dalí at Work
2006-11-11
6
My Paris Movie
2011-12-31
6
Orchard Street
2010-09-24
6
A Few Notes on Andy's Factory
1999-12-31
6
Song of The Salamander
1996-12-31
6
Mysteries
2002-12-31
6
Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí
2006-11-11
6
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008-01-01
6
European Diaries
1966-09-04
6
Happy Easter Ride
2012-07-22
6
Letters from Nowhere
1997-12-25
6
Letters from Nowhere
1997-12-25
6
Letters from Nowhere
1997-12-25
6
The Song of Central Park
2006-11-11
6
Tapes
2020-09-14
6
Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden
1972-06-10
6
Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden
1972-06-10
6
Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden
1972-06-10
6
Monday April 16, 2007
2007-04-16
6
Friday May 4, 2007: John Zorn – Cobra Part Two
2007-05-04
6
Sunday December 30, 2007
2007-12-30
6
To John With Love
2006-11-01
6
John & Yoko Bed-In
2006-11-01
6
The Brig
1964-09-20
6
The Monks of Cinema
6
A Visit to Timothy Leary
6
Diary Entry: Father and Daughter
2001-03-07
6
I Am Searching for Nothing
6
Fluxus on the Hudson
6
Elia Kazan
6
Mozart & Elvis
2000-01-01
6
Saturday Jan. 6
2007-01-06
6
Saturday Jan. 6
2007-01-06
6
Últimas correspondencias
2016-01-01