Ken Jacobs Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

"I filmed Flo and Ken Jacobs in 2001 when they visited me in my studio (the School of Artistic Photography, Vienna). Our acquaintance, friendship...

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

An Eternalism film.

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

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

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

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

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

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

Experimental short silent film (black & white).

No description from the artist.

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.

An Eternalism film.

A Rainy Day in New York.