Ken Jacobs

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse Self 2025

Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art Self 2023

Art-House America: Austin Film Society Self 2023

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages 2022

Fragments of Paradise Self 2022

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas 2016

What Is Cinema? Self 2013

The Eternal Courtship 2013

Emma's Dilemma Himself 2012

Sleepless Nights Stories Self 2011

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film Himself 2011

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin Himself 2011

Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? Himself 2010

Lavender Self 2010

Momma's Man Dad 2008

365 Day Project Self 2007

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis Self 2007

Star Spangled to Death Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor 2004

Nervous Ken 2003

Shorts From the Underground Self 2002

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty Self 2000

Birth of a Nation Self 1997

Jonas in the Desert Self 1994

Quartet Number One 1991

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

Home Movies 1971-81 1985

Lost, Lost, Lost Self 1976

Horizons 1973

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” 1973

Huge Pupils Himself 1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches Self 1968

Bill's Hat 1967

Blonde Cobra 1963

Scotch Tape 1962

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43 Director 2026

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41 Director 2026

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42 Director 2026

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40 Director 2025

Book of Eternalisms 39 Director 2025

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Director 2023

Up the Illusion Director 2023

Writhing City Director 2023

Other Urban Lives Director 2023

From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight Director 2023

Book of Eternalisms 1-6 Director 2023

Spasm Director 2023

Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three Director 2023

Tourists of the Familiar 15 Director 2023

Tourists of the Familiar 1 Director 2023

Tourists of the Familiar 5 Director 2023

Tourists of the Familiar 20 Director 2023

Tourists of the Familiar 10 Director 2023

Real Action Figures Director 2022

When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves Director 2022

Sergei Eisenstein Embossed Director 2022

Buster Keaton Embossed Director 2022

One Dozen Roses Director 2022

America Let's Her Hair Down 1905 Director 2022

Eternal Beach Director 2021

Abstract Eternalism Director 2021

Double Wow Director 2021

XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX Director 2021

Cartoonish 1-10 Director 2021

A Small Misunderstanding Director 2021

Adventures of Cookie Truck Director 2021

Hoffman Student Director 2021

Aspiring To Music Director 2021

Movie That Invites Pausing Director 2020

Storefront Director 2020

Spiky Director 2020

Transparent Apartments Director 2020

Municipal Building Passage Director 2020

Clouds and Trees Director 2020

Bandit Director 2020

Hubble II Director 2020

Whirlpool Director 2020

Water Balloon Director 2020

Halley’s Comet Director 2020

Spaceworks Director 2020

Another Day in Days of Yore Director 2020

Garage Wall Director 2020

Period Piece Director 2020

Street Commerce II Director 2020

Street Commerce Director 2020

Resting Merchant Director 2020

Broadway Buildings II Director 2020

Broadway Buildings III Director 2020

Neon Sign Director 2020

Flowers and Bike Director 2020

Chinese New Years Director 2020

Chinese New Years II Director 2020

Broadway Building Director 2020

Duck Director 2020

Fire Escape Director 2020

Brick Building with Red and Green Windows Director 2020

DeKooning Passed Director 2020

Doyer Street Director 2020

Sleeping American Director 2020

Waiting Room Window Director 2020

Natural Collage Director 2020

Reading Society Director 2020

Lazy City Director 2020

Roots of Manhattan Director 2020

Friendly Building Director 2020

Bison Director 2020

Working Girls (short) Director 2020

Bargains Director 2020

City Foliage Director 2020

Barber Director 2020

Foliage in Moving Car Window Director 2020

Facade with Face Director 2020

RECIPROCAL Director 2020

Ken and Flo Director 2020

Red Green Director 2020

Rain Clouds Director 2020

PAINTED POSTER Director 2020

DR. TOOTHY Director 2020

Rubble Director 2020

CRUSH Director 2019

PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO Director 2019

Failure Director 2019

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party Director 2019

Things to Come Director 2019

MOVING ROAD Director 2019

Figures I - V Director 2019

THE WHOLE SHEBANG Director 2019

ABSTRACT Director 2019

Chaos Is Order Misunderstood Director 2019

Above the Rain Director 2019

The Sky Socialist: The Environs Director 2019

Joan Mitchell: Departures Director 2019

Once Upon a Planet Director 2019

Details of Pollock's White Light Director 2019

Cartoon Director 2019

Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes Director 2019

Dimsum and Dragons Director 2019

The Moments: Evening Boat Ride Director 2018

Tree Stump Director 2018

Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms Director 2017

Get Up and Go Director 2017

A Spin Through Night City Director 2017

Along the Elevated Director 2017

Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl Director 2017

Ulysses in the Subway Director 2017

Windbreaker Director 2017

Central Park Director 2016

Snow in Headlights II Director 2016

Reichstag 9/11 Director 2016

BMT Canal Street Director 2016

Mosco Street 2 Director 2016

Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3) Director 2016

Molten Landscape Director 2016

Lurking Director 2016

Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Director 2016

Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Director 2016

Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Director 2016

Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Director 2016

Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Director 2016

Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Director 2016

Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Director 2016

I'm Telling You Director 2016

Hydroelectric Dam Director 2016

Empty Seats Director 2015

Batchellor’s Dog and Beach Director 2015

Afternoon Tide Director 2015

Zazie Learns About Money Director 2015

Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul Director 2015

Chrysalis Director 2015

Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies Director 2015

The Lackadaisical Speed of Light Director 2015

Granular Director 2015

Floral Director 2015

Wire Fence Director 2014

Canopy Director 2014

Pygmalion Cubed Director 2014

Celestial Bodies Director 2014

The Guests Director 2014

Popeye Sees 3-D Director 2014

A Primer in Sky Socialism Director 2013

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2 Director 2013

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1 Director 2013

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4 Director 2013

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3 Director 2013

Blankets for Indians Director 2012

Street Vendor Director 2012

20 Little Films Director 2012

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero Director 2011

OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN Director 2011

Seeking the Monkey King Director 2011

The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street Director 2011

America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening Director 2011

Revolving Door Director 2011

Turbulent Waters Director 2011

The Roses Director 2011

The Green Wave Director 2011

Another Occupation Director 2011

DAY AND NIGHT Director 2011

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman Director 2011

A Loft Director 2010

Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway Director 2010

The Near-Collision Director 2010

Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two Director 2010

Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra Director 2010

Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days Director 2009

Walkway Director 2009

Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified Director 2009

Brook Director 2009

Bob Fleischner Dying Director 2009

Brain Operations Director 2009

“Slow is Beauty”—Rodin Director 2009

Berkeley To San Francisco Director 2009

What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901 Director 2009

Hot Dogs At The Met Director 2009

Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor Director 2009

Gravity Is Tops Director 2009

The Day Was a Scorcher Director 2009

The Signing Director 2009

Return to the Scene of the Crime Director 2008

Elbow Dance Director 2008

The Discovery Director 2008

Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception) Director 2008

Alone at Last Director 2008

The Scenic Route Director 2008

Love Story Director 2008

Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks) Director 2008

Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World Director 2007

Nymph Director 2007

Hanky Panky January 1902 Director 2007

We Are Charming Director 2007

Titles Director 2007

Mosco Street Rapture Director 2007

Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO Director 2007

Capitalism: Slavery Director 2007

Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World Director 2007

Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival Director 2007

New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 Director 2007

Capitalism: Child Labor Director 2007

Pushcarts of Eternity Street Director 2006

The Surging Sea of Humanity Director 2006

Two Wrenching Departures Director 2006

Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise Director 2005

Insistent Clamor Director 2005

Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888 Director 2005

Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly Director 2005

Let There Be Whistle Blowers Director 2005

Krypton Is Doomed Director 2005

Spiral Nebula Director 2005

Let There Be Whistleblowers Director 2005

Mountaineer Spinning Director 2004

Star Spangled to Death Director 2004

Keeping an Eye on Stan Director 2003

Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence Director 2002

A Tom Tom Chaser Director 2002

The Sky Socialist: Flight Director 2002

New York Street Trolleys 1900 Director 1999

Flo Rounds a Corner Director 1999

Disorient Express Director 1996

The Georgetown Loop Director 1996

Looting For Rodney Director 1995

Make Light On Film Director 1995

Bitemporal Vision: The Sea Director 1994

Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896 Director 1991

Keaton's Cops Director 1991

Chronometer Director 1990

The Alps and The Jews Director 1986

Perfect Film Director 1985

The Doctor's Dream Director 1977

Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance Director 1977

Spaghetti Aza Director 1976

Urban Peasants Director 1975

Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture Director 1975

Changing Azazel Director 1973

Binghamton, My India Director 1970

Nissan Ariana Window Director 1969

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son Director 1969

Globe Director 1969

The Sky Socialist Director 1968

Soft Rain Director 1968

For Life, Against the War Director 1967

Airshaft Director 1967

Lisa and Joey in Connecticut Director 1965

Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness Director 1965

1st Window Director 1964

Window Director 1964

We Stole Away Director 1964

The Winter Footage Director 1964

Winter Sky Director 1964

Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures Director 1964

Little Stabs at Happiness Director 1963

TV Plug Director 1963

Blonde Cobra Director 1963

Baud'larian Capers Director 1962

The Whirled Director 1961

The Death of P'town Director 1961

Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice Director 1956

Little Cobra Dance Director 1956

Orchard Street Director 1955

Sky Dive Director

Depth for One Eye or Two Director

Spotted Fever Director

Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies Writer 2015

The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street Writer 2011

Another Occupation Writer 2011

The Day Was a Scorcher Writer 2009

Spiral Nebula Writer 2005

Star Spangled to Death Writer 2004

Keaton's Cops Writer 1991

Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896 Writer 1991