Ken Jacobs Movies

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

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...

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

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

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...

A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

An Eternalism film.

Found footage film by Ken Jacobs of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard with various digital glitches.

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

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...

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"