Movies: Oona Mekas

  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)

    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
  • 2011
    The Future

    The Future (2011)

    The Future

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    When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves....

    The Future
  • 2021
    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2021)

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order....

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 2022
    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise (2022)

    Fragments of Paradise

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    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 diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he ...

    Fragments of Paradise
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1997)

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 2009
    HBO Imagine

    HBO Imagine (2009)

    HBO Imagine

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    TV film, nominated for Best Experimental Series in 2010, in Streamy Awards....

    HBO Imagine
  • 2017
    Barracuda

    Barracuda (2017)

    Barracuda

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    Sinaloa hitchhikes into Texas to meet Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father. As the two get to know each other, Sinaloa's chaotic influence starts to unravel Merle's quiet, comfortable life. While the family music legacy...

    Barracuda
  • 2013
    The Gambler

    The Gambler (2013)

    The Gambler

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    Paramedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake....

    The Gambler
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project (2007)

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns...

    365 Day Project
  • 2011
    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)

    Sleepless Nights Stories

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    Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acquaintances like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Mr. M...

    Sleepless Nights Stories
  • 2010
    Kelp

    Kelp (2010)

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    An idealistic grade school teacher has a fear of speaking up in public (other than in front of her kids). But when she finds out that children in her school are going hungry- thanks to federal cutbacks in school lunch programs- it compels her to do t...

    Kelp
  • 1996
    Song of The Salamander

    Song of The Salamander (1996)

    Song of The Salamander

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    This film has to do with the early years of my daughter Oona, when she was three or four years old...

    Song of The Salamander
  • 2012
    Richard's Wedding

    Richard's Wedding (2012)

    Richard's Wedding

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    RICHARD'S WEDDING is an ensemble comedy that explores how the most enduring friendships require a mixture of envy, love and ridiculous egomania disguised as self-contempt. Alex and Tuna are on their way to Richard and Phoebe's wedding, to be reunited...

    Richard's Wedding
  • 1979
    Paradise Not Yet Lost

    Paradise Not Yet Lost (1979)

    Paradise Not Yet Lost

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    The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year....

    Paradise Not Yet Lost
  • 2010
    Memories Of Soho, Quartet

    Memories Of Soho, Quartet (2010)

    Memories Of Soho, Quartet

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    Many scenes in the film were street scenes of Soho, New York City from 1967-75. Twenty years later, the filmmaker creates a record of Soho from the 60s, 70s & 90s, revisiting the neighborhood with her video camera and juxtaposing images from Mr. Meka...

    Memories Of Soho, Quartet