Ken Jacobs Movie Trailers
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Lost, Lost, Lost Trailer (1976)
14 September 1976
Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the struggle to build a new life in New York and his gradual discovery of a vibrant artistic community.
Window Trailer (1964)
21 December 1964
The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior scene.
365 Day Project Trailer (2007)
31 December 2007
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches Trailer (1968)
01 March 1968
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols.
Blonde Cobra Trailer (1963)
08 April 1963
A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the soundtrack speaks of his despair, makes impressionistic statements and little songs, quotes Greta Garbo and Maria Montez, tells the story of a lonely little boy and tells the story of a woman named Madame Nescience who dreams of herself as the Mother Superior of a convent of sexual perversion.
Downtown Loft with Skylights Trailer (2026)
20 April 2026
In this late work (made with Azazel Jacobs’s participation), Ken Jacobs returns to an earlier (and frequent) subject, the bric-a-brac-laden loft in which he and Flo lived, and from it he derives a lacunar, fragmented, sculptural reenvisioning of on-screen (and domestic) space.
Nervous Ken Trailer (2003)
15 May 2003
In NERVOUS KEN, experimental film legend Ken Jacobs is "interviewed" by my urbane 12-year old M.C., Emma Bernstein.
For Life, Against the War Trailer (1967)
30 January 1967
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War.
The Sky Socialist Trailer (1968)
31 August 1968
Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of a now vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
Baud'larian Capers Trailer (1962)
01 January 1962
A mostly silent (except for one 78 instrumental record played in the background of one sequence) experimental film centering around a stylized depiction of Nazis and Jews.
Orchard Street Trailer (1955)
31 December 1955
This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.
The Lackadaisical Speed of Light Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D).
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son Trailer (1969)
11 April 1969
An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX Trailer (2021)
14 January 2021
Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially designed system of two analytic stop-motion projectors, equipped with a spinning exterior shutter, enabling him to compare stills of found footage side by side.
Star Spangled to Death Trailer (2004)
21 May 2004
An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from political campaign films to animated cartoons to children’s phonograph records, featuring Al Jolson, Mickey Mouse, the young Jack Smith, and a half-dozen American presidents.
For James Otis Trailer (2023)
15 July 2023
A Ken Jacobs eternalism made using a dazzling iPhone panorama from James Otis.
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World Trailer (2007)
26 April 2007
Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible, almost hallucinogenic ninety-three, combining period stereoscopic slides to create a fascinating play of depth and 2- and 3-dimensionality, narrative and scintillating spectacle.
OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN Trailer (2011)
22 October 2011
Short visit to Zuccotti Park. Flo and I walk along Broadway and meet no less that 50,000 people turning onto Broadway at Chambers Street.
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly Trailer (2005)
13 March 2005
Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy film Berth Marks.
DAY AND NIGHT Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
DAY AND NIGHT was photographed with a still-camera with close-up attachment. Two close images were taken, with the subject -a heather plant- on a turning platform.
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin Trailer (2009)
01 September 2009
Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.
Make Light On Film Trailer (1995)
05 May 1995
Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist showroom and Communist austerity.
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin Trailer (2011)
09 April 2011
A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” Trailer (1973)
26 March 1973
During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers.
Keaton's Cops Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top three-fourths or four-fifths of the frame.
The Whirled Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls.
Let There Be Whistle Blowers Trailer (2005)
01 January 2005
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 going nowhere.
The Eternal Courtship Trailer (2013)
05 May 2013
In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us out here who bask in the glow.
Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures Trailer (1964)
06 January 1964
Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.
Blankets for Indians Trailer (2012)
17 April 2012
Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New York’s City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of an Occupy Wall Street march.
Capitalism: Slavery Trailer (2007)
28 April 2007
In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer as the source for this wrenching silent work.
Movie That Invites Pausing Trailer (2020)
28 May 2020
"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [.
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art Trailer (2023)
30 August 2023
One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative partner Flo Jacobs, sit down for a series of discussions, reflecting on numerous clips from the many films and performances conjured onto screens since 1955 and through to today.
The Death of P'town Trailer (1961)
01 January 1961
Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between actor Jack Smith and director Ken Jacobs shortly after the shooting began.
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901 Trailer (2009)
01 September 2009
Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain Trailer (2017)
01 January 2017
One of Ken Jacobs' eternalism films that explores themes of environmental destruction and capitalist greed through a 3D, suspended-time, stereoscopic technique designed to manipulate perspective and depth.
Capitalism: Child Labor Trailer (2007)
24 January 2007
A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers.
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to shoot this whiplash-inducing single-frame study of a dynamic play filled with frantic action, full frontal nudity, and so much more.
A Date with Shirley Trailer (2026)
07 April 2026
Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, who died last October.
Book of Eternalisms 8 Trailer (2023)
19 August 2023
The eighth entry in Ken Jacobs Book of Eternalisms series.