Ken Jacobs Movies

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

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

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

Scenes from the life and work at Anthology Film Archives. Much of the footage in this video was shot by Auguste Varkalis.

A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the...

"I filmed Flo and Ken Jacobs in 2001 when they visited me in my studio (the School of Artistic Photography, Vienna). Our acquaintance, friendship...

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

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

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

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

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.

"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...

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

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...

"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...

Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

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

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.