Movies

  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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    Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1969
    Lions Love

    Lions Love

    Lions Love

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    Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

    Lions Love
  • 1971
    Up Your Legs Forever

    Up Your Legs Forever

    Up Your Legs Forever

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    The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.

    Up Your Legs Forever
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1999
    Alien Blood

    Alien Blood

    Alien Blood

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    Spoof science fiction. An alien mother and her child are pursued across England by a bunch of incompetent government agents and take refuge in a...

    Alien Blood
  • 1997
    Happy Birthday to John

    Happy Birthday to John

    Happy Birthday to John

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    On October 9, 1972, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse hosted an exhibition of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s work, designed by Fluxus artist...

    Happy Birthday to John
  • 1986
    As Kineastas

    As Kineastas

    As Kineastas

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    Based on interviews with 15 women, including directors, producers and film actresses, a journey around the world is made, seeing the wars waged by...

    As Kineastas
  • 1967
    Portrait of Jason

    Portrait of Jason

    Portrait of Jason

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    Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked,...

    Portrait of Jason
  • 1980
    The Beats: An Existential Comedy

    The Beats: An Existential Comedy

    The Beats: An Existential Comedy

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    A "film poem" that focuses on the Beat poetry scene of the late 1950s.

    The Beats: An Existential Comedy
  • 1964
    The Cool World

    The Cool World

    The Cool World

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    A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to...

    The Cool World
  • 1963
    Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World

    Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World

    Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World

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    The acclaimed poet is examined in this film completed just prior to his death at age 88, with his speaking engagements at Amherst and Sarah Lawrence...

    Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 1971
    Yoko and John Party

    Yoko and John Party

    Yoko and John Party

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    Yoko & John Party hold. Recycled with Paul Ryan's video tape. This is interesting beacuse of your showing Paul Ryan's tape. 1st part is home movie...

    Yoko and John Party
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1978
    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation

    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation

    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation

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    Left to viewer interpretation, this beautiful dance piece displays a spiritual or religious initiation. A short work, this film was released as part...

    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation
  • 1971
    Ricky Leacock Visit, evening, April 19, 1971

    Ricky Leacock Visit, evening, April 19, 1971

    Ricky Leacock Visit, evening, April 19, 1971

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    April 19 nite of Ricky visit but not of Ricky. 1. Jose Soltero & his assistant Alicia from Argentina. I do teaching, they tape. 2. Harry arrives...

    Ricky Leacock Visit, evening, April 19, 1971
  • 2016
    Rose and the Players – Part 2

    Rose and the Players – Part 2

    Rose and the Players – Part 2

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    In August 1955, director Shirley Clarke and choreographer Anne Sokolow embarked on a dance film about mime. It evolved two years later into 'The...

    Rose and the Players – Part 2
  • 1962
    The Connection

    The Connection

    The Connection

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    Eight drug addicts are waiting for their connection in a New York apartment while a two-man documentary team films the proceedings. Things go out of...

    The Connection
  • 1960
    A Scary Time

    A Scary Time

    A Scary Time

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    Intended as a call to action, this UNICEF-sponsored film juxtaposes the fears experienced by children around the world as a means of awakening...

    A Scary Time
  • 2016
    This Is Not 'In Paris Parks'

    This Is Not 'In Paris Parks'

    This Is Not 'In Paris Parks'

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    In 1954, Shirley Clarke created 'In Paris Parks', a short film starring her ten-year-old daughter Wendy Clarke. In 2013, the Wisconsin Center for...

    This Is Not 'In Paris Parks'