Ken Jacobs Movies

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs. Along the way he...

Scenes from the life and work at Anthology Film Archives. Much of the footage in this video was shot by Auguste Varkalis.

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

"I filmed Flo and Ken Jacobs in 2001 when they visited me in my studio (the School of Artistic Photography, Vienna). Our acquaintance, friendship...

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...