
Ken Jacobs
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.
Directed by Ken

Spiky
Mountaineer Spinning
Elbow Dance

Nymph

Spaceworks

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

Barber

Urban Peasants

DAY AND NIGHT

The Winter Footage

Garage Wall

Duck

Up the Illusion

Cartoonish 1-10

DR. TOOTHY

Cartoon

Red Green

20 Little Films

Writhing City
Hot Dogs At The Met

Flo Rounds a Corner
Titles

Period Piece

Dimsum and Dragons

Hoffman Student
Windbreaker

Other Urban Lives

Spasm

Working Girls (short)

Sergei Eisenstein Embossed

Chronometer

Chinese New Years
“Slow is Beauty”—Rodin

Ulysses in the Subway

DeKooning Passed

Granular

Facade with Face

A Loft

Walkway

XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures
Pygmalion Cubed

Figures I - V

Canopy

Blonde Cobra

Resting Merchant

Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Alone at Last

Tree Stump

Natural Collage

TV Plug

Globe

Above the Rain

For Life, Against the War
Floral

Insistent Clamor

Joan Mitchell: Departures

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

Fire Escape

Blankets for Indians

Window

Orchard Street

Airshaft

THE WHOLE SHEBANG

Spaghetti Aza

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
The Discovery

Book of Eternalisms 39

Seeking the Monkey King
The Guests

Little Cobra Dance

Capitalism: Slavery

Soft Rain

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

Halley’s Comet

Star Spangled to Death

Two Wrenching Departures

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

The Signing
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901

The Sky Socialist

Rain Clouds
Celestial Bodies

Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

America Let's Her Hair Down 1905

Movie That Invites Pausing

Failure

Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

Keeping an Eye on Stan

The Sky Socialist: The Environs

Friendly Building
Wire Fence

Batchellor’s Dog and Beach

Water Balloon

Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
The Surging Sea of Humanity

The Doctor's Dream

The Green Wave
Love Story

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Details of Pollock's White Light

Foliage in Moving Car Window

Doyer Street

Flowers and Bike

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

Neon Sign

The Scenic Route

Little Stabs at Happiness

Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three

Keaton's Cops

Reichstag 9/11

The Whirled

The Sky Socialist: Flight
Lurking

Bison

Chinese New Years II

Another Day in Days of Yore

Turbulent Waters
Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3

Brain Operations
Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies

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

Mosco Street 2
Baud'larian Capers

We Are Charming

Empty Seats

Ken and Flo
Bandit
The Alps and The Jews

Krypton Is Doomed

Things to Come

Abstract Eternalism

A Tom Tom Chaser

Chrysalis

Disorient Express

A Spin Through Night City

Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl

Afternoon Tide

Hydroelectric Dam

Rubble
Mosco Street Rapture

Brook

Hubble II

Clouds and Trees

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

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

Tourists of the Familiar 20

Book of Eternalisms 1-6
America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening

Return to the Scene of the Crime

The Day Was a Scorcher

Spiral Nebula
I'm Telling You

The Lackadaisical Speed of Light

Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888

1st Window

Transparent Apartments

Municipal Building Passage

Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Along the Elevated
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor

Sleeping American

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

Perfect Film
Popeye Sees 3-D

Looting For Rodney

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

Whirlpool

The Georgetown Loop

Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World

Tourists of the Familiar 15

Tourists of the Familiar 5

Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
Molten Landscape
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness

Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified

Gravity Is Tops

CRUSH

Lazy City

Brick Building with Red and Green Windows

Street Commerce II

Storefront

Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival

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

Tourists of the Familiar 1
Changing Azazel

Double Wow

Buster Keaton Embossed

Chaos Is Order Misunderstood

A Small Misunderstanding

One Dozen Roses

Tourists of the Familiar 10

Nissan Ariana Window

The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street

Another Occupation

Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

New York Street Trolleys 1900

Pushcarts of Eternity Street

Hanky Panky January 1902

Street Vendor

When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves

Once Upon a Planet
We Stole Away
Winter Sky

Binghamton, My India
Revolving Door

Waiting Room Window

Broadway Buildings II

City Foliage

Broadway Building

MOVING ROAD

PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO

Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Snow in Headlights II

New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
A Primer in Sky Socialism

Capitalism: Child Labor

Let There Be Whistle Blowers

Adventures of Cookie Truck

Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896

The Death of P'town

Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
Get Up and Go

Real Action Figures

Aspiring To Music

The Roses

Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1

Bob Fleischner Dying

The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul
Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
Make Light On Film

PAINTED POSTER

RECIPROCAL

Reading Society

Roots of Manhattan

Bargains

Broadway Buildings III

Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Let There Be Whistleblowers
Berkeley To San Francisco

The Near-Collision

Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
Zazie Learns About Money

