Ken Jacobs Movies

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

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

An eternalism film.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

"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...

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

Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, GIFT OF FIRE devotes fetishistic attention to what is...

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

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

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...

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

No description from the artist.

Fall into winter 1964, Urban Renewal forced us to move a few blocks to West of Broadway. Our Sky Socialist ‘set’ is still standing and...

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)...

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

In this late work (made with Azazel Jacobs’s participation), Ken Jacobs returns to an earlier (and frequent) subject, the bric-a-brac-laden...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism