Ken Jacobs Movies

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

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

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...

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

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

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

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

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

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

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

Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, GIFT OF FIRE devotes fetishistic attention to what is...

A picturing of sound in 3D.

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...

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

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

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.

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

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that...

"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...