Ken Jacobs Movies

Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.

An eternalism.

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

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...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

"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...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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...

The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

"Joys…began on the corner of Broadway and Spring but it was the next night waiting on Bleecker that it was understood a movie of sorts was...

In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.

Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between...

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

A Rainy Day in New York.