Ken Jacobs Movies

A picturing of sound in 3D.

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

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

The eighth entry in Ken Jacobs Book of Eternalisms series.

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...

A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to...

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

An Eternalism film.

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

Jack Smith poses in elaborate costumes, plays with everyday objects, and performs for the camera while his disjointed voiceover unfolds through...

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

A Rainy Day in New York.

The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...

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...

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...

An Eternalism film.

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

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.