Ken Jacobs Movies

  • 1964
    Window

    Window

    Window

    4.51964HD

    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...

    Window
  • 1994
    Jonas in the Desert

    Jonas in the Desert

    Jonas in the Desert

    5.51994HD

    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...

    Jonas in the Desert
  • 2022
    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

    6.72022HD

    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...

    Fragments of Paradise
  • 2014
    Canopy

    Canopy

    Canopy

    52014HD

    Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.

    Canopy
  • 2007
    Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World

    Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World

    Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World

    5.32007HD

    Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

    Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
  • 1999
    Flo Rounds a Corner

    Flo Rounds a Corner

    Flo Rounds a Corner

    4.31999HD

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

    Flo Rounds a Corner
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 2009
    Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

    Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

    Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

    6.52009HD

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

    Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
  • 2007
    Capitalism: Child Labor

    Capitalism: Child Labor

    Capitalism: Child Labor

    62007HD

    A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...

    Capitalism: Child Labor
  • 2007
    New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903

    New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903

    New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903

    62007HD

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

    New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
  • 2006
    Two Wrenching Departures

    Two Wrenching Departures

    Two Wrenching Departures

    52006HD

    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...

    Two Wrenching Departures
  • 1955
    Orchard Street

    Orchard Street

    Orchard Street

    6.81955HD

    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.

    Orchard Street
  • 1991
    Quartet Number One

    Quartet Number One

    Quartet Number One

    7.51991HD

    Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

    Quartet Number One
  • 2020
    Rain Clouds

    Rain Clouds

    Rain Clouds

    62020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Rain Clouds
  • 2017
    Windbreaker

    Windbreaker

    Windbreaker

    82017HD

    World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

    Windbreaker
  • 2012
    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    12012HD

    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...

    Emma's Dilemma
  • 2014
    The Guests

    The Guests

    The Guests

    62014HD

    A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

    The Guests
  • 2011
    Turbulent Waters

    Turbulent Waters

    Turbulent Waters

    22011HD

    An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.

    Turbulent Waters
  • 2007
    Titles

    Titles

    Titles

    12007HD

    A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

    Titles
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    102007HD

    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...

    365 Day Project