Ken Jacobs Movies

During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

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

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.

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

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

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

An Eternalism film.

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

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...

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

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

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

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

An Eternalism film.

"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...