Movies

Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs. Along the way he...

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

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...

Experimental short film. Silent.

A Rainy Day in New York.

An Eternalism film.

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that...

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.

Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...

An Eternalism film.

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Experimental short silent film (black & white).

A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...

Home movie by Ken Jacobs. Black and white and silent.

An Eternalism film.

2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.