Ken Jacobs Movies

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

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

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

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

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

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

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

A Rainy Day in New York.

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

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

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

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

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

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

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

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

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

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...

Ken Jacobs short film

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