Ken Jacobs Movies

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

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...

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

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 6'24 Year: 2015 Sound

An Eternalism film.

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists. The anaglyph...

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...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen