Ken Jacobs's Lower East Side: A Tribute
Director: Ken Jacobs
2026 / 100min / DCP
As part of The Whole Shebang: Celebrating Ken and Flo Jacobs, a city-wide, 14-venue expanded cinema(s) festival saluting the vast legacies of experimental film pioneers and perennial New Yorkers Ken (1933-2025) and Flo (1941-2025) Jacobs, Metrograph presents a program of shorts born of Ken’s career-long love affair with the Lower East Side, captured with a Bell & Howell 16mm camera in its years as a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in the 1950s, and in the 21st century seen through digitally manipulated abstractions.
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street (2010, 13 mins)
Orchard Street (1955, 27 mins)
Baud'lairian Capers (1962, 30 mins)
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days (2009, 4 mins)
Writhing City (2023, 26 mins)
Special thanks to Andrew Lampert, Nisi Ariana, and Azazel and Diaz Jacobs
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