Ken Jacobs Movies

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

Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version

Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...

Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...

In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...

"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

In this late work (made with Azazel Jacobs’s participation), Ken Jacobs returns to an earlier (and frequent) subject, the bric-a-brac-laden...

One of Ken Jacobs' eternalism films that explores themes of environmental destruction and capitalist greed through a 3D, suspended-time, stereoscopic...