Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...

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...

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

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.

An Eternalism film.

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

"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...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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...

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

An Eternalism film.

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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...