Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs

Filmography

As Cast

Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse (2025)
as Self
Art-House America: Austin Film Society (2023)
as Self
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art (2023)
as Self
Up the Illusion (2023)
Fragments of Paradise (2022)
as Self
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages (2022)
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas (2016)
What Is Cinema? (2013)
as Self
The Eternal Courtship (2013)
Emma's Dilemma (2012)
as Himself
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)
as Himself
Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)
as Self
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (2011)
as Himself
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (2011)
Lavender (2010)
as Self
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? (2010)
as Himself
Momma's Man (2008)
as Dad
365 Day Project (2007)
as Self
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
as Self
Star Spangled to Death (2004)
as Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor
Nervous Ken (2003)
Shorts From the Underground (2002)
as Self
Flo and Ken Jacobs (2001)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
as Self
Birth of a Nation (1997)
as Self
Jonas in the Desert (1994)
as Self
Quartet Number One (1991)
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
as Self (archive footage)
Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
as Self
Horizons (1973)
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” (1973)
Huge Pupils (1968)
as Himself
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
as Self
Bill's Hat (1967)
Scotch Tape (1963)
Blonde Cobra (1963)

As Crew

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41 (2026)
Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42 (2026)
Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43 (2026)
Director
Downtown Loft with Skylights (2026)
Director
A Date with Shirley (2026)
Director
Book of Eternalisms 39 (2025)
Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40 (2025)
Director
BMT (2025)
Director
Tourists of the Familiar 70 (2024)
Director
Riverbed (2024)
Director
Spasm (2023)
Director
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2023)
Director
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three (2023)
Director
Up the Illusion (2023)
Director
Tourists of the Familiar 15 (2023)
Director
Tourists of the Familiar 1 (2023)
Director
Tourists of the Familiar 5 (2023)
Director
Tourists of the Familiar 20 (2023)
Director
Tourists of the Familiar 10 (2023)
Director
Book of Eternalisms 1-6 (2023)
Director
Other Urban Lives (2023)
Director
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight (2023)
Director
Writhing City (2023)
Director
For James Otis (2023)
Director
Manhattan is an Island (2023)
Director
Hobgoblin Ball (2023)
Director
Book of Eternalisms 7 (2023)
Director
Book of Eternalisms 8 (2023)
Director
Buster Keaton Embossed (2022)
Director
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed (2022)
Director
One Dozen Roses (2022)
Director
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905 (2022)
Director
Real Action Figures (2022)
Director
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves (2022)
Director
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers (2022)
Director
Double Wow (2021)
Director
Abstract Eternalism (2021)
Director
Cartoonish 1-10 (2021)
Director
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX (2021)
Editor, Director
A Small Misunderstanding (2021)
Director
Adventures of Cookie Truck (2021)
Director
Hoffman Student (2021)
Director
Eternal Beach (2021)
Director
Aspiring To Music (2021)
Director
In Front of Anthology (2021)
Director
Rubble (2020)
Director
Rain Clouds (2020)
Director
PAINTED POSTER (2020)
Director
Ken and Flo (2020)
Director
Red Green (2020)
Director
RECIPROCAL (2020)
Director
DR. TOOTHY (2020)
Director
Barber (2020)
Director
Foliage in Moving Car Window (2020)
Director
Facade with Face (2020)
Director
DeKooning Passed (2020)
Director
Doyer Street (2020)
Director
Sleeping American (2020)
Director
Waiting Room Window (2020)
Director
Natural Collage (2020)
Director
Reading Society (2020)
Director
Lazy City (2020)
Director
Roots of Manhattan (2020)
Director
Friendly Building (2020)
Director
Bison (2020)
Director
Working Girls (short) (2020)
Director
Broadway Buildings II (2020)
Director
Bargains (2020)
Director
City Foliage (2020)
Director
Broadway Buildings III (2020)
Director
Chinese New Years (2020)
Director
Chinese New Years II (2020)
Director
Broadway Building (2020)
Director
Duck (2020)
Director
Fire Escape (2020)
Director
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows (2020)
Director
Street Commerce (2020)
Director
Resting Merchant (2020)
Director
Neon Sign (2020)
Director
Flowers and Bike (2020)
Director
Street Commerce II (2020)
Director
Water Balloon (2020)
Director
Halley’s Comet (2020)
Director
Spaceworks (2020)
Director
Period Piece (2020)
Director
Another Day in Days of Yore (2020)
Director
Bandit (2020)
Director
Garage Wall (2020)
Director
Hubble II (2020)
Director
Whirlpool (2020)
Director
Storefront (2020)
Director
Spiky (2020)
Director
Transparent Apartments (2020)
Director
Municipal Building Passage (2020)
Director
Clouds and Trees (2020)
Director
Movie That Invites Pausing (2020)
Director
Cartoon (2019)
Director
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood (2019)
Director
Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes (2019)
Director
Dimsum and Dragons (2019)
Director
Details of Pollock's White Light (2019)
Director
Joan Mitchell: Departures (2019)
Director
Once Upon a Planet (2019)
Director
Above the Rain (2019)
Director
The Sky Socialist: The Environs (2019)
Director
THE WHOLE SHEBANG (2019)
Director
Things to Come (2019)
Director
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party (2019)
Director
Failure (2019)
Director
CRUSH (2019)
Director
Figures I - V (2019)
Director
MOVING ROAD (2019)
Director
PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO (2019)
Director
ABSTRACT (2019)
Director
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride (2018)
Director
Tree Stump (2018)
Director
Windbreaker (2017)
Director
Ulysses in the Subway (2017)
Director
Get Up and Go (2017)
Director
A Spin Through Night City (2017)
Director
Along the Elevated (2017)
Director
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl (2017)
Director
Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms (2017)
Director
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain (2017)
Director
Beautiful Dreamer (2017)
Director
Reichstag 9/11 (2016)
Director
Mosco Street 2 (2016)
Director
Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3) (2016)
Director
I'm Telling You (2016)
Director
Hydroelectric Dam (2016)
Director
Molten Landscape (2016)
Director
Lurking (2016)
Director
Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Director
Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Director
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Director
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Director
Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Director
Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Director
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Director
Snow in Headlights II (2016)
Director
Central Park (2016)
Director
BMT Canal Street (2016)
Director
Chrysalis (2015)
Director
Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies (2015)
Writer, Director
Afternoon Tide (2015)
Director
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach (2015)
Director
Empty Seats (2015)
Director
The Lackadaisical Speed of Light (2015)
Director
Zazie Learns About Money (2015)
Director
Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul (2015)
Director
Granular (2015)
Director
Floral (2015)
Director
Canopy (2014)
Director
The Guests (2014)
Director
Wire Fence (2014)
Director
Popeye Sees 3-D (2014)
Director
Pygmalion Cubed (2014)
Director
Celestial Bodies (2014)
Director
A Primer in Sky Socialism (2013)
Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2 (2013)
Technical Supervisor, Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1 (2013)
Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4 (2013)
Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3 (2013)
Director
Blankets for Indians (2012)
Director
20 Little Films (2012)
Director
Street Vendor (2012)
Director
Seeking the Monkey King (2011)
Director
DAY AND NIGHT (2011)
Director
America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening (2011)
Director
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street (2011)
Writer, Director
Another Occupation (2011)
Director, Writer
The Green Wave (2011)
Director
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (2011)
Director
The Roses (2011)
Director
Revolving Door (2011)
Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
Director
Turbulent Waters (2011)
Director
OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN (2011)
Director
A Loft (2010)
Editor, Director
Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway (2010)
Director
The Near-Collision (2010)
Director
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two (2010)
Director
Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra (2010)
Director
The Day Was a Scorcher (2009)
Director, Writer
The Signing (2009)
Director
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin (2009)
Director
Berkeley To San Francisco (2009)
Director
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901 (2009)
Director
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days (2009)
Director
Bob Fleischner Dying (2009)
Director
Brain Operations (2009)
Director
Hot Dogs At The Met (2009)
Director
Walkway (2009)
Director
Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor (2009)
Director
Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified (2009)
Director
Brook (2009)
Director
Gravity Is Tops (2009)
Director
Return to the Scene of the Crime (2008)
Director
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks) (2008)
Director
Elbow Dance (2008)
Director
The Scenic Route (2008)
Director
The Discovery (2008)
Director
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception) (2008)
Director
Alone at Last (2008)
Director
Love Story (2008)
Director
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2007)
Director
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 (2007)
Director, Producer
Capitalism: Child Labor (2007)
Director
Capitalism: Slavery (2007)
Director
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World (2007)
Director
Nymph (2007)
Director
Hanky Panky January 1902 (2007)
Director
We Are Charming (2007)
Director
Titles (2007)
Director
Mosco Street Rapture (2007)
Director
Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO (2007)
Director
Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival (2007)
Director
The Surging Sea of Humanity (2006)
Director
Two Wrenching Departures (2006)
Director
Pushcarts of Eternity Street (2006)
Director
Monks of Cinema (2006)
Camera Operator
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise (2005)
Director, Editor, Producer
Let There Be Whistle Blowers (2005)
Director
Krypton Is Doomed (2005)
Director
Spiral Nebula (2005)
Director, Writer
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly (2005)
Director
Insistent Clamor (2005)
Director
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888 (2005)
Director
Star Spangled to Death (2004)
Director, Cinematography, Writer, Editor
Mountaineer Spinning (2004)
Director
The Whirled (2003)
Director
Keeping an Eye on Stan (2003)
Director
A Tom Tom Chaser (2002)
Director
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence (2002)
Director
The Sky Socialist: Flight (2002)
Director
Flo Rounds a Corner (1999)
Director
New York Street Trolleys 1900 (1999)
Director
The Georgetown Loop (1996)
Director
Disorient Express (1996)
Director
Looting For Rodney (1995)
Director
Make Light On Film (1995)
Director
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea (1994)
Director
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896 (1991)
Director, Writer
Keaton's Cops (1991)
Writer, Director
Chronometer (1990)
Director
The Alps and The Jews (1986)
Director
Perfect Film (1985)
Director
The Doctor's Dream (1977)
Director
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance (1977)
Director
Spaghetti Aza (1976)
Director
Urban Peasants (1975)
Director
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture (1975)
Director
Changing Azazel (1973)
Director
Binghamton, My India (1970)
Director
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
Director
Nissan Ariana Window (1969)
Director
Globe (1969)
Director
Soft Rain (1968)
Director
Airshaft (1967)
Director
For Life, Against the War (1967)
Director
The Sky Socialist (1966)
Director
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut (1965)
Director
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness (1965)
Director
Window (1964)
Cinematography, Director, Producer, Editor
We Stole Away (1964)
Director
The Winter Footage (1964)
Director
Winter Sky (1964)
Director
Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures (1964)
Director
1st Window (1964)
Director
Blonde Cobra (1963)
Director
Little Stabs at Happiness (1963)
Director
TV Plug (1963)
Director
Baud'larian Capers (1962)
Director
The Death of P'town (1961)
Director
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956)
Director
Little Cobra Dance (1956)
Director
Orchard Street (1955)
Director
Sky Dive
Director
Depth for One Eye or Two
Director
Spotted Fever
Director