Movies:

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

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

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

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    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order....

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s....

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 2022
    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise (2022)

    Fragments of Paradise

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    For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he ...

    Fragments of Paradise
  • 2013
    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema? (2013)

    What Is Cinema?

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    Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and ot...

    What Is Cinema?
  • 1963
    Little Stabs at Happiness

    Little Stabs at Happiness (1963)

    Little Stabs at Happiness

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    Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany the footage....

    Little Stabs at Happiness
  • 2011
    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

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    An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, E...

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
  • 1976
    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)

    Lost, Lost, Lost

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    Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963....

    Lost, Lost, Lost
  • 2016
    Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

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

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

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    "Abstract Expressionist Cinema"...

    Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
  • 2008
    Momma's Man

    Momma's Man (2008)

    Momma's Man

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    An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house....

    Momma's Man
  • 1962
    Scotch Tape

    Scotch Tape (1962)

    Scotch Tape

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    Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its soundtrack. Three young men merrily bop through the wreckage of razed buildings at the site of what would b...

    Scotch Tape
  • 2011
    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

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    Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community....

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  • 1963
    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra (1963)

    Blonde Cobra

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    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...

    Blonde Cobra
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1997)

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project (2007)

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns...

    365 Day Project
  • 2018
    The Moments: Evening Boat Ride

    The Moments: Evening Boat Ride (2018)

    The Moments: Evening Boat Ride

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    3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs...

    The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
  • 1964
    Window

    Window (1964)

    Window

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    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. The zoom lens rips, pulling depth planes apart and slapping them together, contracting and expan...

    Window
  • 2005
    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise (2005)

    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

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    A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in the 17th century, he morphs, flickering images that look like photo-negatives....

    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
  • 2010
    Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?

    Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? (2010)

    Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?

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    The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made in 1901 in London, about Santos Dumont (1873 – 1932). The work approaches historic and artistic aspects fr...

    Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
  • 2008
    The Discovery

    The Discovery (2008)

    The Discovery

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    An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs...

    The Discovery