Ken Jacobs Movies

3D film by Ken Jacobs

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...

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...

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

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...

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

Ken Jacobs' black and white abstract short from 2019, in five parts.

An Eternalism film.

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

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

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

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...

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

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

Experimental short film.