Ken Jacobs Movies
- 1964
Window
Window4.51964HD
The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2014
Canopy
Canopy52014HD
Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.
- 2007
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World5.32007HD
Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...
- 1999
Flo Rounds a Corner
Flo Rounds a Corner4.31999HD
A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 2009
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days6.52009HD
Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...
- 2007
Capitalism: Child Labor
Capitalism: Child Labor62007HD
A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...
- 2007
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 190362007HD
First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...
- 2006
Two Wrenching Departures
Two Wrenching Departures52006HD
Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...
- 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.
- 1991
Quartet Number One
Quartet Number One7.51991HD
Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.
- 2020
Rain Clouds
Rain Clouds62020HD
An Eternalism film.
- 2017
Windbreaker
Windbreaker82017HD
World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017
- 2012
Emma's Dilemma
Emma's Dilemma12012HD
Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...
- 2014
The Guests
The Guests62014HD
A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...
- 2011
Turbulent Waters
Turbulent Waters22011HD
An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.
- 2007
Titles
Titles12007HD
A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series
- 2007
365 Day Project
365 Day Project102007HD
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...