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 Beauty7.82000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 2022
Fragments of Paradise
Fragments of Paradise6.72022HD
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
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis6.62007HD
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
- 1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.41968HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 2013
What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?6.22013HD
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
- 2009
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
What Happened on 23rd Street in 190102009HD
Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.
- 2007
365 Day Project
365 Day Project02007HD
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...
- 2017
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl02017HD
Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...
- 1994
Jonas in the Desert
Jonas in the Desert5.51994HD
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of...
- 2016
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
- 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.
- 2023
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight02023HD
A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life81986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 2008
Alone at Last
Alone at Last02008HD
An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
- 2007
We Are Charming
We Are Charming02007HD
An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
- 1967
For Life, Against the War
For Life, Against the War61967HD
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...
- 1955
Orchard Street
Orchard Street6.81955HD
This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.
- 1963
The Death of P'town
The Death of P'town01963HD
Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between...
- 2009
The Signing
The Signing02009HD
MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.
- 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...