Ken Jacobs Movies

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

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

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

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

"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...

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

Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

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.

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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

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

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)...

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...

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

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...