Ken Jacobs Movies

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

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

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...

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

"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 strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

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

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

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

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

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

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

"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 experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...