Ken Jacobs Movies

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

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in...

Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...

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...

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

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

An intimate and ongoing dialogue between filmmaker Paula Gaitán and Ken Jacobs. Filmed over the last decade in New York, the documentary...

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

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

"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...

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

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

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

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

An Eternalism film.