Ken Jacobs Movies

A picturing of sound in 3D.

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

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

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

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

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New York’s City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of...

An Eternalism film.

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

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...

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

Found Footage avantgarde film.

Premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on August 5, 2021.

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

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.

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

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...