Ken Jacobs Movies

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

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

Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...

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.

Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

An Eternalism film.

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.

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

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...

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...

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism