Filmography
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · Acting
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Acting
What Is Cinema?
2013 · Acting
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
2025 · Acting
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Acting
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · Acting
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976 · Acting
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Acting
365 Day Project
2007 · Acting
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011 · Director
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016 · Acting
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 · Acting
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
2010 · Acting
About Space and Depth
2026 · Acting
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023 · Acting
Fragments of Paradise
2022 · Acting
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Director
Home Movies 1971-81
1985 · Acting
Jonas in the Desert
1994 · Acting
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973 · Acting
Laboratorium Anthology
1999 · Acting
20 Little Films
2012 · Director
- No Poster
Flo and Ken Jacobs
2001 · Acting
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011 · Acting
Little Stabs at Happiness
1963 · Director
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011 · Director, Acting
- No Poster
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022 · Acting
Flo Rounds a Corner
1999 · Director
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
2023 · Director
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
2007 · Director
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
2005 · Director
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011 · Acting
Bill's Hat
1967 · Acting
The Death of P'town
1961 · Director
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance
1977 · Director
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
1991 · Director, Writer
Up the Illusion
2023 · Director, Acting
Ulysses in the Subway
2017 · Director
Star Spangled to Death
2004 · Director, Writer, Acting
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
1956 · Director
Momma's Man
2008 · Acting
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023 · Director
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009 · Director
- No Poster
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
2010 · Director
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019 · Director
Blonde Cobra
1963 · Director, Acting
New York Street Trolleys 1900
1999 · Director
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
1994 · Director
Capitalism: Child Labor
2007 · Director
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
2020 · Director
Bob Fleischner Dying
2009 · Director
Keeping an Eye on Stan
2003 · Director
Details of Pollock's White Light
2019 · Director
Depth for One Eye or Two
Director
- No Poster
Get Up and Go
2017 · Director
Seeking the Monkey King
2011 · Director
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
1965 · Director
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
1975 · Director
Foliage in Moving Car Window
2020 · Director
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
2023 · Acting
The Day Was a Scorcher
2009 · Director, Writer
A Spin Through Night City
2017 · Director
The Sky Socialist: The Environs
2019 · Director
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1969 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 10
2023 · Director
- No Poster
Manhattan is an Island
2023 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40
2025 · Director
- No Poster
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
2013 · Director
- No Poster
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3
2013 · Director
Pushcarts of Eternity Street
2006 · Director
Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
- No Poster
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
1965 · Director
Movie That Invites Pausing
2020 · Director
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2023 · Director
- No Poster
America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
2011 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42
2026 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 20
2023 · Director
THE WHOLE SHEBANG
2019 · Director
Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified
2009 · Director
Blankets for Indians
2012 · Director
Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
The Sky Socialist
1966 · Director
Hanky Panky January 1902
2007 · Director
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
2022 · Director
Let There Be Whistle Blowers
2005 · Director
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
2015 · Director
- No Poster
The Surging Sea of Humanity
2006 · Director
The Lackadaisical Speed of Light
2015 · Director
Snow in Headlights II
2016 · Director
Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
Return to the Scene of the Crime
2008 · Director
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
2019 · Director
PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
2019 · Director
- No Poster
Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
2010 · Director
- No Poster
I'm Telling You
2016 · Director
Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures
1964 · Director
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
2009 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 1
2023 · Director
OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN
2011 · Director
Globe
1969 · Director
Period Piece
2020 · Director
A Tom Tom Chaser
2002 · Director
- No Poster
Berkeley To San Francisco
2009 · Director
Spaghetti Aza
1976 · Director
Book of Eternalisms 39
2025 · Director
- No Poster
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain
2017 · Director
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
2005 · Director
- No Poster
Shorts From the Underground
2002 · Acting
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
2002 · Director
- No Poster
Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
2010 · Director
Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
2017 · Director
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
2007 · Director
The Doctor's Dream
1977 · Director
Orchard Street
1955 · Director
- No Poster
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
2022 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 5
2023 · Director
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
Another Day in Days of Yore
2020 · Director
The Roses
2011 · Director
Cartoon
2019 · Director
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
2018 · Director
Horizons
1973 · Acting
Neon Sign
2020 · Director
Window
1964 · Director
Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
2016 · Director
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin
2009 · Director
Storefront
2020 · Director
Adventures of Cookie Truck
2021 · Director
Perfect Film
1985 · Director
Book of Eternalisms 8
2023 · Director
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
2011 · Director, Writer
MOVING ROAD
2019 · Director
Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
2019 · Director
Book of Eternalisms 7
2023 · Director
The Sky Socialist: Flight
2002 · Director
Downtown Loft with Skylights
2026 · Director
- No Poster
Popeye Sees 3-D
2014 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43
2026 · Director
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
2005 · Director
Book of Eternalisms 1-6
2023 · Director
- No Poster
Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
2015 · Director, Writer
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
2008 · Director
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
2008 · Director
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
2022 · Director
Disorient Express
1996 · Director
- No Poster
Make Light On Film
1995 · Director
Granular
2015 · Director
Failure
2019 · Director
Spiral Nebula
2005 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
The Alps and The Jews
1986 · Director
Once Upon a Planet
2019 · Director
Airshaft
1967 · Director
Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
- No Poster
A Date with Shirley
2026 · Director
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
2017 · Director
Clouds and Trees
2020 · Director
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
2007 · Director
Working Girls (short)
2020 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 15
2023 · Director
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
2021 · Director
- No Poster
Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
2007 · Director
- No Poster
Pygmalion Cubed
2014 · Director
- No Poster
Tourists of the Familiar 70
2024 · Director
- No Poster
Riverbed
2024 · Director
- No Poster
Zazie Learns About Money
2015 · Director
- No Poster
In Front of Anthology
2021 · Director
- No Poster
Windbreaker
2017 · Director
DeKooning Passed
2020 · Director
The Georgetown Loop
1996 · Director
- No Poster
Hot Dogs At The Met
2009 · Director
Municipal Building Passage
2020 · Director
Roots of Manhattan
2020 · Director
Garage Wall
2020 · Director
Little Cobra Dance
1956 · Director
Chronometer
1990 · Director
Chrysalis
2015 · Director
A Loft
2010 · Director
Facade with Face
2020 · Director
Brook
2009 · Director
Quartet Number One
1991 · Acting
- No Poster
Hobgoblin Ball
2023 · Director
City Foliage
2020 · Director
Two Wrenching Departures
2006 · Director
- No Poster
Wire Fence
2014 · Director
Hydroelectric Dam
2016 · Director
Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
2007 · Director
Rain Clouds
2020 · Director
- No Poster
Mosco Street Rapture
2007 · Director
- No Poster
Floral
2015 · Director
The Green Wave
2011 · Director
Scotch Tape
1963 · Acting
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1
2013 · Director
DR. TOOTHY
2020 · Director
One Dozen Roses
2022 · Director
- No Poster
Winter Sky
1964 · Director
- No Poster
Nissan Ariana Window
1969 · Director
Emma's Dilemma
2012 · Acting
Above the Rain
2019 · Director
- No Poster
Mountaineer Spinning
2004 · Director
- No Poster
Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor
2009 · Director
- No Poster
Along the Elevated
2017 · Director
Urban Peasants
1975 · Director
- No Poster
BMT
2025 · Director
Ken and Flo
2020 · Director
Walkway
2009 · Director
Capitalism: Slavery
2007 · Director
Lavender
2010 · Acting
Street Commerce II
2020 · Director
The Whirled
2003 · Director
Chinese New Years II
2020 · Director
Spaceworks
2020 · Director
Central Park
2016 · Director
Things to Come
2019 · Director
Huge Pupils
1968 · Acting
Spasm
2023 · Director
Broadway Buildings III
2020 · Director
Duck
2020 · Director
Hoffman Student
2021 · Director
The Scenic Route
2008 · Director
Figures I - V
2019 · Director
Nervous Ken
2003 · Acting
DAY AND NIGHT
2011 · Director
Sleeping American
2020 · Director
Eternal Beach
2021 · Director
Bison
2020 · Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
2013 · Director
Tree Stump
2018 · Director
- No Poster
Lurking
2016 · Director
Empty Seats
2015 · Director
RECIPROCAL
2020 · Director
ABSTRACT
2019 · Director
Looting For Rodney
1995 · Director
Sky Dive
Director
Abstract Eternalism
2021 · Director
Hubble II
2020 · Director
Water Balloon
2020 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41
2026 · Director
Halley’s Comet
2020 · Director
Baud'larian Capers
1962 · Director
Buster Keaton Embossed
2022 · Director
Whirlpool
2020 · Director
Canopy
2014 · Director
Keaton's Cops
1991 · Director, Writer
Insistent Clamor
2005 · Director
Street Vendor
2012 · Director
Natural Collage
2020 · Director
Another Occupation
2011 · Director, Writer
A Small Misunderstanding
2021 · Director
TV Plug
1963 · Director
- No Poster
Alone at Last
2008 · Director
PAINTED POSTER
2020 · Director
Writhing City
2023 · Director
Chinese New Years
2020 · Director
Fire Escape
2020 · Director
Real Action Figures
2022 · Director
Friendly Building
2020 · Director
Krypton Is Doomed
2005 · Director
- No Poster
A Primer in Sky Socialism
2013 · Director
Red Green
2020 · Director
Brain Operations
2009 · Director
- No Poster
Bandit
2020 · Director
Mosco Street 2
2016 · Director
- No Poster
Titles
2007 · Director
Aspiring To Music
2021 · Director
Joan Mitchell: Departures
2019 · Director
Doyer Street
2020 · Director
Bargains
2020 · Director
Resting Merchant
2020 · Director
Reichstag 9/11
2016 · Director
Reading Society
2020 · Director
Waiting Room Window
2020 · Director
Barber
2020 · Director
1st Window
1964 · Director
- No Poster
Changing Azazel
1973 · Director
Spotted Fever
Director
BMT Canal Street
2016 · Director
Soft Rain
1968 · Director
- No Poster
Elbow Dance
2008 · Director
- No Poster
For James Otis
2023 · Director
The Near-Collision
2010 · Director
- No Poster
The Guests
2014 · Director
- No Poster
Celestial Bodies
2014 · Director
The Eternal Courtship
2013 · Acting
Afternoon Tide
2015 · Director
- No Poster
Revolving Door
2011 · Director
The Signing
2009 · Director
Spiky
2020 · Director
Transparent Apartments
2020 · Director
Double Wow
2021 · Director
- No Poster
The Discovery
2008 · Director
- No Poster
Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul
2015 · Director
Broadway Building
2020 · Director
Nymph
2007 · Director
Other Urban Lives
2023 · Director
Rubble
2020 · Director
- No Poster
Beautiful Dreamer
2017 · Director
Street Commerce
2020 · Director
- No Poster
We Stole Away
1964 · Director
The Winter Footage
1964 · Director
Lazy City
2020 · Director
We Are Charming
2007 · Director
- No Poster
Molten Landscape
2016 · Director
Flowers and Bike
2020 · Director
Cartoonish 1-10
2021 · Director
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
2022 · Director
Turbulent Waters
2011 · Director
Gravity Is Tops
2009 · Director
- No Poster
Love Story
2008 · Director
Broadway Buildings II
2020 · Director
Binghamton, My India
1970 · Director
CRUSH
2019 · Director
Dimsum and Dragons
2019 · Director