Ken Jacobs Movies

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

The diamond patterns in the wire fencing for construction on his street inspired Ken Jacobs’s latest astonishing 3-D extravaganza.

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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

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

A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

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

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

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...

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.