Ken Jacobs Movies

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin...

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

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

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

Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...

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

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

A Rainy Day in New York.

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

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

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

In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...

Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs. Along the way he...

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

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

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

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

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3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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