Ken Jacobs

1933 – 2025 • 92 Jahre († 2025) • Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Schauspielerei 37

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

Up the Illusion

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

Fragments of Paradise

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas

What Is Cinema?

The Eternal Courtship

Emma's Dilemma

Sleepless Nights Stories

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?

Lavender

Momma's Man

365 Day Project

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Star Spangled to Death

Nervous Ken

Shorts From the Underground

Flo und Ken Jacobs

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Birth of a Nation

Jonas in the Desert

Quartet Number One

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Home Movies 1971-81

Lost, Lost, Lost

Horizons

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

Huge Pupils

Walden

Bill's Hat

Blonde Cobra

Scotch Tape

Regie 279

Downtown Loft with Skylights

A Date with Shirley

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40

Book of Eternalisms 39

BMT

Riverbed

Tourists of the Familiar 70

Book of Eternalisms 8

Book of Eternalisms 7

For James Otis

Up the Illusion

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Writhing City

Other Urban Lives

From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight

Book of Eternalisms 1-6

Spasm

Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three

Tourists of the Familiar 1

Tourists of the Familiar 5

Tourists of the Familiar 10

Tourists of the Familiar 15

Tourists of the Familiar 20

Manhattan is an Island

Hobgoblin Ball

Real Action Figures

When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves

Sergei Eisenstein Embossed

Buster Keaton Embossed

One Dozen Roses

America Lets Her Hair Down 1905

Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers

Eternal Beach

Abstract Eternalism

Double Wow

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Cartoonish 1-10

A Small Misunderstanding

Adventures of Cookie Truck

Hoffman Student

Aspiring To Music

In Front of Anthology

Movie That Invites Pausing

Transparent Apartments

Spiky

Storefront

Municipal Building Passage

Clouds and Trees

Bandit

Whirlpool

Hubble II

Halley’s Comet

Water Balloon

Spaceworks

Another Day in Days of Yore

Garage Wall

Period Piece

Street Commerce II

Street Commerce

Resting Merchant

Broadway Buildings II

Broadway Buildings III

Neon Sign

Flowers and Bike

Chinese New Years II

Chinese New Years

Brick Building with Red and Green Windows

Fire Escape

Broadway Building

Duck

Doyer Street

DeKooning Passed

Sleeping American

Roots of Manhattan

Reading Society

Lazy City

Waiting Room Window

Natural Collage

Bison

Working Girls (short)

Friendly Building

Bargains

City Foliage

Barber

Foliage in Moving Car Window

Facade with Face

RECIPROCAL

Red Green

Ken and Flo

Rain Clouds

PAINTED POSTER

DR. TOOTHY

Rubble

CRUSH

PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO

Failure

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

Things to Come

MOVING ROAD

Figures I - V

THE WHOLE SHEBANG

ABSTRACT

Chaos Is Order Misunderstood

Above the Rain

The Sky Socialist: The Environs

Joan Mitchell: Departures

Once Upon a Planet

Details of Pollock's White Light

Cartoon

Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes

Dimsum and Dragons

The Moments: Evening Boat Ride

Tree Stump

Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms

A Spin Through Night City

Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl

Get Up and Go

Along the Elevated

Beautiful Dreamer

Ulysses in the Subway

Windbreaker

Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain

Central Park

Snow in Headlights II

Reichstag 9/11

BMT Canal Street

Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)

Mosco Street 2

Lurking

Molten Landscape

Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Hydroelectric Dam

I'm Telling You

Empty Seats

Batchellor’s Dog and Beach

Afternoon Tide

Zazie Learns About Money

Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul

Chrysalis

Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies

The Lackadaisical Speed of Light

Granular

Floral

Wire Fence

Canopy

Pygmalion Cubed

Celestial Bodies

The Guests

Popeye Sees 3-D

A Primer in Sky Socialism

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1

Blankets for Indians

Street Vendor

20 Little Films

60 Sekundit Üksindust Aastal Null

OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN

Seeking the Monkey King

The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street

America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening

Revolving Door

Turbulent Waters

The Roses

The Green Wave

Another Occupation

DAY AND NIGHT

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

A Loft

Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two

Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra

Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

The Near-Collision

Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified

Walkway

Brook

Brain Operations

Bob Fleischner Dying

Berkeley To San Francisco

"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin

What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901

Hot Dogs At The Met

Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor

Gravity Is Tops

The Day Was a Scorcher

The Signing

Return to the Scene of the Crime

The Discovery

Alone at Last

Elbow Dance

Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)

The Scenic Route

Love Story

Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)

Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World

Nymph

Hanky Panky January 1902

We Are Charming

Titles

Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO

Mosco Street Rapture

Capitalism: Slavery

Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World

Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival

New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903

Capitalism: Child Labor

Pushcarts of Eternity Street

The Surging Sea of Humanity

Two Wrenching Departures

Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888

Insistent Clamor

Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly

Let There Be Whistle Blowers

Krypton Is Doomed

Spiral Nebula

Mountaineer Spinning

Star Spangled to Death

Keeping an Eye on Stan

The Whirled

Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

A Tom Tom Chaser

The Sky Socialist: Flight

New York Street Trolleys 1900

Flo Rounds a Corner

Disorient Express

The Georgetown Loop

Looting For Rodney

Make Light On Film

Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896

Keaton's Cops

Chronometer

The Alps and The Jews

Perfect Film

The Doctor's Dream

Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance

Spaghetti Aza

Urban Peasants

Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture

Changing Azazel

Binghamton, My India

Sky Dive

Depth for One Eye or Two

Spotted Fever

Nissan Ariana Window

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

Globe

Soft Rain

For Life, Against the War

Airshaft

The Sky Socialist

Lisa and Joey in Connecticut

Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness

1st Window

Window

We Stole Away

The Winter Footage

Winter Sky

Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures

Little Stabs at Happiness

TV Plug

Blonde Cobra

Baud'larian Capers

The Death of P'town

Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

Little Cobra Dance

Orchard Street

Weitere Mitarbeit 15

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Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2

The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street

Another Occupation

A Loft

The Day Was a Scorcher

New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903

Monks of Cinema

Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

Spiral Nebula

Star Spangled to Death

Keaton's Cops

Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896

Window

Bekannt für

365 Day Project

365 Day Project 2007
Self

The Death of P'town

The Death of P'town 1961
Director

Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence 2002
Director

Horizons

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 1986
Self (archive footage)

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse 2025
Self