Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.62000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 2011
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero3.82011HD
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...
- 2013
What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?6.42013HD
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
- 2025
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse02025HD
Explores the life and career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman including the creation and ground-breaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic...
- 1967
Bill's Hat
Bill's Hat01967HD
"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...
- 1969
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son61969HD
An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
- 2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.52013HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life8.21986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film6.7272011HD
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...
- 2008
Momma's Man
Momma's Man62008HD
An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.
- 2022
Fragments of Paradise
Fragments of Paradise6.52022HD
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his...
- 2007
365 Day Project
365 Day Project102007HD
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...
- 1976
Lost, Lost, Lost
Lost, Lost, Lost71976HD
Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.
- 2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
Sleepless Nights Stories5.72011HD
Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old...
- 1996
The Georgetown Loop
The Georgetown Loop7.31996HD
First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...
- 2011
The Green Wave
The Green Wave02011HD
A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 2011
Another Occupation
Another Occupation02011HD
A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...
- 2005
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise5.92005HD
A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in...
- 1963
Blonde Cobra
Blonde Cobra2.81963HD
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...