Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Experimental short film. Silent.

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.

Each new year Flo and I join the young and many-languaged crowd walking to the top of Brooklyn Bridge ostensibly for the fireworks. Fact is the...

Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between...

An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie...

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

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...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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...

Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

The eighth entry in Ken Jacobs Book of Eternalisms series.

An Eternalism film.

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that...

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.