Ken Jacobs Movies

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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...

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.

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

Ken Jacobs describes Bob Fleischner Dying: "Bob allows his sick and fading image to be caught in stereo photography. A man of mystery, so banal in...

An Eternalism film.

"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

40 minute 3D work.

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

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...

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.