
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 digital video, his investigations and innovations have influenced countless artists. A New Yorker by birth, Jacobs graduated from City University to find himself in the midst of the downtown art scene of the 1960s, which included artists Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; and the experimental theater troupes of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer. Although Jacobs had studied painting with Hans Hoffman, he quickly gravitated to film, finding kindred spirits in radical filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and Hollis Frampton. An early friendship with Jack Smith yielded several collaborations, including the seminal underground films Blonde Cobra (which Jonas Mekas dubbed "the masterpiece of Baudelairean cinema") and Little Stabs at Happiness, as well as a Provincetown beach-based live show, The Human Wreckage Review.

Star Spangled to Death

The Georgetown Loop

Orchard Street

Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

Perfect Film

Capitalism: Child Labor

Globe

For Life, Against the War

Chronometer

Rain Clouds

Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

Little Stabs at Happiness

Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)

Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World

Two Wrenching Departures

Canopy

Flo Rounds a Corner

Capitalism: Slavery

Seeking the Monkey King

Window

60 Sekundit Üksindust Aastal Null

ブロンド・コブラ

Turbulent Waters

Double Wow

Urban Peasants

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2

Abstract Eternalism

Cartoon

Cartoonish 1-10

Spasm

Buster Keaton Embossed

Sergei Eisenstein Embossed

Chaos Is Order Misunderstood

A Small Misunderstanding

A Tom Tom Chaser

Let There Be Whistle Blowers

Krypton Is Doomed

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

Adventures of Cookie Truck

Hoffman Student

Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three

One Dozen Roses

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Up the Illusion

Dimsum and Dragons

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

America Let's Her Hair Down 1905

Book of Eternalisms 1-6

Chrysalis

DAY AND NIGHT

Eternal Beach

Soft Rain

A Loft

Disorient Express

The Doctor's Dream

Spaghetti Aza

Nissan Ariana Window

Return to the Scene of the Crime

Airshaft

XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX

Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896

Keaton's Cops

Spiral Nebula

The Day Was a Scorcher

The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street

Another Occupation

The Green Wave

The Signing

Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

Little Cobra Dance

The Death of P'town

Blankets for Indians

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

Reichstag 9/11

20 Little Films

Ulysses in the Subway

Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly

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

Lisa and Joey in Connecticut

Looting For Rodney

New York Street Trolleys 1900

The Sky Socialist

The Scenic Route

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

The Near-Collision

Pushcarts of Eternity Street

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

Hanky Panky January 1902

Nymph

We Are Charming

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

Other Urban Lives

The Whirled

Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl

A Spin Through Night City

Real Action Figures

Aspiring To Music

Street Vendor

The Roses

Writhing City

When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves

Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

The Sky Socialist: Flight

Afternoon Tide

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

Mosco Street 2

Empty Seats

Batchellor’s Dog and Beach

Details of Pollock's White Light

Joan Mitchell: Departures

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1

Hydroelectric Dam

The Lackadaisical Speed of Light

Once Upon a Planet

Above the Rain

The Sky Socialist: The Environs

THE WHOLE SHEBANG

Things to Come

TV Plug

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

The Winter Footage

Binghamton, My India

Rubble

Keeping an Eye on Stan

Insistent Clamor

Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888

Bob Fleischner Dying

Brain Operations

Brook

Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified

Gravity Is Tops

Walkway

Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms

The Moments: Evening Boat Ride

1st Window

Failure

RECIPROCAL

Red Green

CRUSH

Ken and Flo

PAINTED POSTER

DR. TOOTHY

Barber

Foliage in Moving Car Window

Facade with Face

Doyer Street

Sleeping American

DeKooning Passed

Waiting Room Window

Natural Collage

Reading Society

Roots of Manhattan

Lazy City

Bison

Friendly Building

Working Girls (short)

Broadway Buildings II

Bargains

City Foliage

Broadway Buildings III

Brick Building with Red and Green Windows

Broadway Building

Fire Escape

Duck

Figures I - V

Chinese New Years

Chinese New Years II

Street Commerce

Resting Merchant

Neon Sign

Flowers and Bike

Street Commerce II

Halley’s Comet

Water Balloon

Spaceworks

Period Piece

Another Day in Days of Yore

Garage Wall

Hubble II

Whirlpool

Storefront

Transparent Apartments

Spiky

Municipal Building Passage

Clouds and Trees

PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO

MOVING ROAD

Movie That Invites Pausing

Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

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

Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival

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

Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

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

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

Snow in Headlights II

Book of Eternalisms 39

Granular

Tree Stump

OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN

ABSTRACT

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41

Central Park

BMT Canal Street

Sky Dive

Depth for One Eye or Two

Spotted Fever

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43

365 Day Project

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

Horizons

時を数えて、砂漠に立つ

歩みつつ垣間見た美しい時の数々

Star Spangled to Death

Quartet Number One

ウォールデン

ロストロストロスト/何もかも失われて

Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Fragments of Paradise

What Is Cinema?

Birth of a Nation

Momma's Man

Jonas in the Desert

Sleepless Nights Stories

Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?

Scotch Tape

ブロンド・コブラ

Emma's Dilemma

Lavender

Home Movies 1971-81

Huge Pupils

Bill's Hat

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas

Nervous Ken

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

The Eternal Courtship

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

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