Movies
- 1997

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...
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- 2013

What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?6.42013HD
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
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- 2022

Vertigo
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Gozo Yoshimasu, a pioneer of Japanese contemporary poetry, pursued the vision of his ally, the late Jonas Mekas in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The time...
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- 1966

Shooting Guns
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Shot in 1960 on the set of Jonas Mekas' 'Guns of the Trees'. Dedicated to Ron Rice.
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- 2006

John & Yoko Bed-In
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In May 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famous Bed-In For Peace event. It was attended by many of their close friends, including Timothy...
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- 2006

Anger Me
Anger Me8.82006HD
Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until...
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- 2015

A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
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Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life.
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- 2014

A Cardinal
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- 2022

Fragments of Paradise
Fragments of Paradise6.52022HD
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his...
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- 1971

Up Your Legs Forever
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The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.
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- 1967

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...
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- 1968

Jonas
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A verité portrait of Jonas Mekas making his daily rounds, JONAS shows us the underground impresario attending a peace rally, filming in...
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- 2006

Elia Kazan
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This was filmed on August 18, 1972 at the house of Lee Radziwill in Montauk, Long Island. The film includes Elia Kazan, Barbara Loden, Peter Beard,...
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- 1973

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
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During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...
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- 2005

The Definition of Insanity
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Co-director Robert Margolis stars as Robert, an actor who may or may not be himself in this intense and often hilarious film about acting, aging and...
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- 2006

Imperfect Film
Imperfect Film02006HD
This is a film made with outtakes from my other films and some found footage. It includes great found footage with monkeys. Sound: Auguste Varkalis...
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- 2017

Crickets
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- 2006

To John With Love
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This was filmed on October 9, 1972 in Syracuse, N.Y., on John Lennon's Birthday; during Lennon/Yoko Ono concert at Madison Square Garden, August 30,...
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- 1990

Step Across the Border
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An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.
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- 2006

Who Gets to Call It Art?
Who Gets to Call It Art?6.92006HD
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.
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