Ken Jacobs Movies

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that...

One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...

"2013. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. With technical assistance by Nisi Jacobs. Part two of four. “Joys…began on the corner of Broadway...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

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

A picturing of sound in 3D.

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

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

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

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