Ken Jacobs Filmes

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 Eternalism film.

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

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...

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

Experimental short silent film (black & white).

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

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

Experimental short film.

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

"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...

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

An Eternalism film.

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

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.