Teenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York’s Little Italy and Chinatown.

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

A stripped-down account of a young man’s existential reckoning. “As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self,” reads one of the film’s Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre…

A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Sitney. The…

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman’s assault in front of an apartment building, and to a…

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to…

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, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending…