Ken Jacobs Movies

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

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...

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.

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

Scenes from the life and work at Anthology Film Archives. Much of the footage in this video was shot by Auguste Varkalis.

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

During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...

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

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

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...

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

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

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

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.

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...

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...

Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...