Ken Jacobs Movies

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

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...

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

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...

Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...

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...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

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.

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...

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old...