Ken Jacobs Movies

Ken Jacobs describes Bob Fleischner Dying: "Bob allows his sick and fading image to be caught in stereo photography. A man of mystery, so banal in...

A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs

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

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Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

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...

A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to...

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...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Part of a series of Eternalisms

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

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

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs short film

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

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