Jacob Burckhardt

A greedy landlord wants to evict a bicycle shop from his property and replace it with a high-rent-paying art gallery. The environment-conscious owner of the bike shop outwits the avaricious landlord in a high-speed bike chase.

When honor howls no sylph can resist

1999-2008, 6.5 min, 16mm-to-digital.

The crumbling beauty of a soon-to-be-demolished, impoverished Red Hook neighborhood in the mid-1970s is revealed to us moment by moment, structure by forgotten structure. The circuslike brass music suggests a public face of “a city in progress” while the addicts, thieves, and other lonely people are shown to us as the human cost: those who will be left out of that development.

A film about a future dinosaur, a species that might be headed for extinction, even though it seems to be thriving now. Not the human race, which in spite of everything may continue to suffer for many years, but the automobile. The filmmaker was fortunate enough to reside at the meeting of two great expressways and a tunnel, and from his roof and kitchen window was able to observe closely these machines in their natural habitat (55 miles per hour). It is also a film about visual effects, the camera lens and the human eye, and the difference between the things that they both see.

An ironic New York City thriller involving a mafioso and a restless, witty lawyer.

A greedy landlord wants to evict a bicycle shop from his property and replace it with a high-rent-paying art gallery. The environment-conscious owner of the bike shop outwits the avaricious landlord in a high-speed bike chase.

When honor howls no sylph can resist

1999-2008, 6.5 min, 16mm-to-digital.

The crumbling beauty of a soon-to-be-demolished, impoverished Red Hook neighborhood in the mid-1970s is revealed to us moment by moment, structure by forgotten structure. The circuslike brass music suggests a public face of “a city in progress” while the addicts, thieves, and other lonely people are shown to us as the human cost: those who will be left out of that development.

A film about a future dinosaur, a species that might be headed for extinction, even though it seems to be thriving now. Not the human race, which in spite of everything may continue to suffer for many years, but the automobile. The filmmaker was fortunate enough to reside at the meeting of two great expressways and a tunnel, and from his roof and kitchen window was able to observe closely these machines in their natural habitat (55 miles per hour). It is also a film about visual effects, the camera lens and the human eye, and the difference between the things that they both see.

An ironic New York City thriller involving a mafioso and a restless, witty lawyer.

2024, 15 min, digital. Soundtrack by Lary 7.

Filmed in Neversink, New York in 1972 by Jacob Burckhardt

2014-19, 8 min, digital.

1975, 19.5 min, 16mm-to-digital.

The film travels through the urban canyons, parking decks and rooftops of New York, where choreographer Yoshiko Chuma and actor John Nesci explore the textures and architecture of the city through engagement with movement and objects. Finally, the journey leads to the natural landscape of Maine where Jacob Burckhardt’s camera captures the movements of leaves, water, light, and a raft floating in the fog.

Short film.

"Hold On I'm Coming" Sung by Mr. Mahogany Plywood, Starring Mr. Fashion, Miss Kimberly Lewis, Miss Quiana, and Mr. Royston Scott. Costumes by Miss Mahogany Plywood. Executive producer Mr. Gérard Little. Camera and Editing by Mr. Jacob Burckhardt. Shot on the streets of New York and Tortilla Flats.

Cuckolded king Louis the Fourteenth Street vows vengeance on his murderous second wife Mary Antionette. A beautiful princess imprisoned in a dungeon, a lusty wet nurse, a charming Greenish Blonde Prince, a bleeding royal ghost, and a voracious guillotine round out the cast of this experimental, color-saturated, digital, scary fairy tale of a featurette.

A spy being interrogated by a superior can only guess at the mission, priorities and agenda behind the encounter.

1978-2022, 1.5 min, 16mm-to-digital.

In the 1930's Sara Spencer Washington was a black woman millionaire who parlayed her line of hair and beauty products into international cosmetology schools which gave thousands of black women financial independence by owning their own salons.

Twenty-plus former students, colleagues, and admirers of Peter Hutton answered an invitation to shoot A Roll For Peter. The parameters were simple: shoot a single 100 feet roll of black and white 16mm film. They were then strung together with black film separating the rolls, as Peter often separated the single shots in his films.It is a series of pieces that speak to Peter’s strong contemplative aesthetic ethos. Each filmmaker has 2 and half minutes of screen time to commune with Peter’s memory, and the collected rolls will become more than the sum of their parts.

1988-2020, 11 min, 16mm-to-digital.

2022, 4 min, digital.

A film by Jacob Burckhardt

A short contemplation on late autumn in Maine, mortality, windmills, and the music of Indian painter and musician Mohan Samant. Shot in Lincolnville, Maine, at Neil Welliver’s place.

2002, 11.5 min, 16mm-to-digital. With music by Enomoto Kenichi.

A graceful cat in a leopard print jacket who lived fast and died slow, Frankie dances, prances, and jives into your heart – only to fall prey to the ills of stardom and nose-dive into the cruel world of drugs and obscurity, leaving several wives to battle over his estate. — Anthology Film Archives

A 1940s campy film noir sex romp comedy thriller. Harlem, Chinatown, Park Ave. It’s the same old story. Boy meets girl, boy gets dead, girl gets rich. Real rich. With Bill Rice, George Kuchar, James Tigger! Ferguson, Armen Ra, Mimi Gross, Megan Pearson, Mariana Newhard, Kimberly Lewis, Meghan Love, Jenny Weaver, Amalia Rosa, and Royston Scott. Music by Marc Ribot and Brett Flute. — Anthology Film Archives

"…such varied delights as noted film critic and theoretician Laleen Jayamanne performing a Sri Lankian ritual dance on a tenement rooftop after polishing off a 32-oz. beer in 'Yaknetuma From the Lower East Side'…" -- Bruce Bennett, the New York Sun

Night on the streets of New York. "Dawn enters the sunk city". A sonnet by Edwin Denby, who reads it and appears briefly in the distance. "old sixth ... the lunge of headlights ... the alive, the dead, answer, ask ..." — The Film-Makers' Cooperative

2013, 5 min, digital. With music by Marc Ribot.