Ken Jacobs Movies

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.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...

Fall into winter 1964, Urban Renewal forced us to move a few blocks to West of Broadway. Our Sky Socialist ‘set’ is still standing and...

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

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

An intimate and ongoing dialogue between filmmaker Paula Gaitán and Ken Jacobs. Filmed over the last decade in New York, the documentary...

Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...

Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - Ken Jacobs

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between...

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...

Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...

Ken Jacobs short film

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

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

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