Ken Jacobs Movies

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck. A friend observing the...

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

A mostly silent (except for one 78 instrumental record played in the background of one sequence) experimental film centering around a stylized...

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

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...

Home movie by Ken Jacobs. Black and white and silent.

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing,...

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes