Ken Jacobs Movies

Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

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...

A picturing of sound in 3D.

An Eternalism film.

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

An Eternalism film.

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...

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.

3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

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

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 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...

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

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...