Ken Jacobs Movies

  • 2007
    Capitalism: Child Labor

    Capitalism: Child Labor

    Capitalism: Child Labor

    62007HD

    A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...

    Capitalism: Child Labor
  • 1963
    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

    2.7441963HD

    A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the...

    Blonde Cobra
  • 2019
    PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO

    PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO

    PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO

    02019HD

    An Eternalism film.

    PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
  • 2009
    Bob Fleischner Dying

    Bob Fleischner Dying

    Bob Fleischner Dying

    02009HD

    Ken Jacobs describes Bob Fleischner Dying: "Bob allows his sick and fading image to be caught in stereo photography. A man of mystery, so banal in...

    Bob Fleischner Dying
  • 2020
    Brick Building with Red and Green Windows

    Brick Building with Red and Green Windows

    Brick Building with Red and Green Windows

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
  • 1964
    1st Window

    1st Window

    1st Window

    01964HD

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

    1st Window
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 2020
    Whirlpool

    Whirlpool

    Whirlpool

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Whirlpool
  • 2007
    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World

    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World

    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World

    02007HD

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

    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
  • 2011
    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    3.82011HD

    An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
  • 2015
    Granular

    Granular

    Granular

    02015HD

    Experimental short film. Silent.

    Granular
  • 2020
    Water Balloon

    Water Balloon

    Water Balloon

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Water Balloon
  • 2014
    The Guests

    The Guests

    The Guests

    62014HD

    A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

    The Guests
  • 2023
    Up the Illusion

    Up the Illusion

    Up the Illusion

    02023HD

    A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

    Up the Illusion
  • 1968
    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    01968HD

    In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

    Huge Pupils
  • 2013
    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    6.4782013HD

    Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

    What Is Cinema?
  • 2023
    Art-House America: Austin Film Society

    Art-House America: Austin Film Society

    Art-House America: Austin Film Society

    02023HD

    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...

    Art-House America: Austin Film Society
  • 2000
    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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

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

    7.62000HD

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

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

    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

    6.52022HD

    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...

    Fragments of Paradise
  • 2008
    Momma's Man

    Momma's Man

    Momma's Man

    6.22008HD

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

    Momma's Man