Ken Jacobs
Directing • AGE 92
A pioneer of the American film avant-garde of the 1960s and '70s, Ken Jacobs is a central figure in post-war experimental cinema. From his first films of the late 1950s to his recent experiments with ...
Filmography
Downtown Loft with Skylights
Director
2026
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43
Director
2026
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41
Director
2026
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42
Director
2026
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40
Director
2025
Book of Eternalisms 39
Director
2025
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
Self
2025
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
Self
2023
Book of Eternalisms 8
Director
2023
Book of Eternalisms 7
Director
2023
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Self
2023
Up the Illusion
2023
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Director
2023
Writhing City
Director
2023
Other Urban Lives
Director
2023
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
Director
2023
Book of Eternalisms 1-6
Director
2023
Spasm
Director
2023
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
Director
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 15
Director
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 1
Director
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 5
Director
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 20
Director
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 10
Director
2023
Real Action Figures
Director
2022
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
Director
2022
Fragments of Paradise
Self
2022
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
Director
2022
Buster Keaton Embossed
Director
2022
One Dozen Roses
Director
2022
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
Director
2022
Eternal Beach
Director
2021
Abstract Eternalism
Director
2021
Double Wow
Director
2021
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
Editor
2021
Cartoonish 1-10
Director
2021
A Small Misunderstanding
Director
2021
Adventures of Cookie Truck
Director
2021
Hoffman Student
Director
2021
Aspiring To Music
Director
2021
Movie That Invites Pausing
Director
2020
Storefront
Director
2020
Spiky
Director
2020
Transparent Apartments
Director
2020
Municipal Building Passage
Director
2020
Clouds and Trees
Director
2020
Hubble II
Director
2020
Whirlpool
Director
2020
Water Balloon
Director
2020
Halley’s Comet
Director
2020
Spaceworks
Director
2020
Another Day in Days of Yore
Director
2020
Garage Wall
Director
2020
Period Piece
Director
2020
Street Commerce II
Director
2020
Street Commerce
Director
2020
Resting Merchant
Director
2020
Broadway Buildings II
Director
2020
Broadway Buildings III
Director
2020
Neon Sign
Director
2020
Flowers and Bike
Director
2020
Chinese New Years
Director
2020
Chinese New Years II
Director
2020
Broadway Building
Director
2020
Duck
Director
2020
Fire Escape
Director
2020
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
Director
2020
DeKooning Passed
Director
2020
Doyer Street
Director
2020
Sleeping American
Director
2020
Waiting Room Window
Director
2020
Natural Collage
Director
2020
Reading Society
Director
2020
Lazy City
Director
2020
Roots of Manhattan
Director
2020
Friendly Building
Director
2020
Bison
Director
2020
Working Girls (short)
Director
2020
Bargains
Director
2020
City Foliage
Director
2020
Barber
Director
2020
Foliage in Moving Car Window
Director
2020
Facade with Face
Director
2020
RECIPROCAL
Director
2020
Ken and Flo
Director
2020
Red Green
Director
2020
Rain Clouds
Director
2020
PAINTED POSTER
Director
2020
DR. TOOTHY
Director
2020
Rubble
Director
2020
CRUSH
Director
2019
PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
Director
2019
Failure
Director
2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
Director
2019
Things to Come
Director
2019
MOVING ROAD
Director
2019
Figures I - V
Director
2019
THE WHOLE SHEBANG
Director
2019
ABSTRACT
Director
2019
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
Director
2019
Above the Rain
Director
2019
The Sky Socialist: The Environs
Director
2019
Joan Mitchell: Departures
Director
2019
Once Upon a Planet
Director
2019
Details of Pollock's White Light
Director
2019
Cartoon
Director
2019
Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
Director
2019
Dimsum and Dragons
Director
2019
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
Director
2018
Tree Stump
Director
2018
Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
Director
2017
A Spin Through Night City
Director
2017
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
Director
2017
Ulysses in the Subway
Director
2017
Central Park
Director
2016
Snow in Headlights II
Director
2016
Reichstag 9/11
Director
2016
BMT Canal Street
Director
2016
Mosco Street 2
Director
2016
Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
Director
2016
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016
Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Director
2016
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Director
2016
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Director
2016
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Director
2016
Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Director
2016
Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Director
2016
Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Director
2016
Hydroelectric Dam
Director
2016
Empty Seats
Director
2015
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
Director
2015
Afternoon Tide
Director
2015
Chrysalis
Director
2015
The Lackadaisical Speed of Light
Director
2015
Granular
Director
2015
Canopy
Director
2014
What Is Cinema?
Self
2013
The Eternal Courtship
2013
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
Technical Supervisor
2013
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1
Director
2013
Emma's Dilemma
Himself
2012
Blankets for Indians
Director
2012
Street Vendor
Director
2012
20 Little Films
Director
2012
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Director
2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
Self
2011
OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN
Director
2011
Seeking the Monkey King
Director
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself
2011
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
Writer
2011
Turbulent Waters
Director
2011
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
Himself
2011
The Roses
Director
2011
The Green Wave
Director
2011
Another Occupation
Director
2011
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
DAY AND NIGHT
Director
2011
A Loft
Editor
2010
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
Himself
2010
The Near-Collision
Director
2010
Lavender
Self
2010
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
Director
2009
Walkway
Director
2009
Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified
Director
2009
Brook
Director
2009
Bob Fleischner Dying
Director
2009
Brain Operations
Director
2009
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin
Director
2009
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
Director
2009
Gravity Is Tops
Director
2009
The Day Was a Scorcher
Director
2009
The Signing
Director
2009
Return to the Scene of the Crime
Director
2008
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
Director
2008
The Scenic Route
Director
2008
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
Director
2008
Momma's Man
Dad
2008
365 Day Project
Self
2007
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
Director
2007
Nymph
Director
2007
Hanky Panky January 1902
Director
2007
We Are Charming
Director
2007
Capitalism: Slavery
Director
2007
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
Director
2007
Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
Director
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Self
2007
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
Director
2007
Capitalism: Child Labor
Director
2007
Monks of Cinema
Camera Operator
2006
Pushcarts of Eternity Street
Director
2006
Two Wrenching Departures
Director
2006
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
Director
2005
Insistent Clamor
Director
2005
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
Director
2005
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
Director
2005
Let There Be Whistle Blowers
Director
2005
Krypton Is Doomed
Director
2005
Spiral Nebula
Director
2005
Star Spangled to Death
Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor
2004
Nervous Ken
2003
Keeping an Eye on Stan
Director
2003
The Whirled
Director
2003
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
Director
2002
A Tom Tom Chaser
Director
2002
The Sky Socialist: Flight
Director
2002
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
2000
New York Street Trolleys 1900
Director
1999
Flo Rounds a Corner
Director
1999
Birth of a Nation
Self
1997
Disorient Express
Director
1996
The Georgetown Loop
Director
1996
Looting For Rodney
Director
1995
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
Director
1994
Jonas in the Desert
Self
1994
Quartet Number One
1991
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
Director
1991
Keaton's Cops
Writer
1991
Chronometer
Director
1990
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
1986
Perfect Film
Director
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
The Doctor's Dream
Director
1977
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance
Director
1977
Lost, Lost, Lost
Self
1976
Spaghetti Aza
Director
1976
Urban Peasants
Director
1975
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
Director
1975
Horizons
1973
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Binghamton, My India
Director
1970
Nissan Ariana Window
Director
1969
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Director
1969
Globe
Director
1969
Huge Pupils
Himself
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
1968
Soft Rain
Director
1968
For Life, Against the War
Director
1967
Bill's Hat
1967
Airshaft
Director
1967
The Sky Socialist
Director
1966
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
Director
1965
1st Window
Director
1964
Window
Cinematography
1964
The Winter Footage
Director
1964
Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures
Director
1964
Little Stabs at Happiness
Director
1963
TV Plug
Director
1963
Blonde Cobra
1963
Scotch Tape
1962
Baud'larian Capers
Director
1962
The Death of P'town
Director
1961
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
Director
1956
Little Cobra Dance
Director
1956
Orchard Street
Director
1955
Sky Dive
Director
Depth for One Eye or Two
Director
Spotted Fever
Director