Ken Jacobs Movies

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.

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

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Fall into winter 1964, Urban Renewal forced us to move a few blocks to West of Broadway. Our Sky Socialist ‘set’ is still standing and...

Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.

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

Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...

In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin...

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

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

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

An Eternalism film.