Movies

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...

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

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

Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck. A friend observing the...

An Eternalism film.

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.

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

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

3D film by Ken Jacobs

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

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

Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

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