Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.82000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.31968HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life81986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis6.62007HD
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
- 1963
The Death of P'town
The Death of P'town01963HD
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...
- 2015
Empty Seats
Empty Seats02015HD
3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 6'24 Year: 2015 Sound
- 2007
Capitalism: Slavery
Capitalism: Slavery4.92007HD
In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...
- 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...
- 2016
Mosco Street 2
Mosco Street 202016HD
Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 2007
We Are Charming
We Are Charming02007HD
An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
- 1962
Scotch Tape
Scotch Tape4.21962HD
Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...
- 1976
Lost, Lost, Lost
Lost, Lost, Lost6.751976HD
Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.
- 1967
For Life, Against the War
For Life, Against the War61967HD
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...
- 2015
Afternoon Tide
Afternoon Tide02015HD
3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 9' Year: 2015 Sound
- 2016
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
- 2020
RECIPROCAL
RECIPROCAL02020HD
First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and...
- 2016
Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)02016HD
Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.
- 1969
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son61969HD
An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
- 1965
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness01965HD
Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs