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...

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

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

Experimental short film. Silent.

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...

An Eternalism film.

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...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 9' Year: 2015 Sound

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

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

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

Abstract avantgarde film.

An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

An Eternalism film.