Ken Jacobs Movies

3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

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

An eternalism.

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

An Eternalism film.

No description from the artist.

Experimental short silent film (black & white).

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...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

"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...

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...

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

Throbbing light not for persons afflicted with epilepsy. A train passes through a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space is toyed with,...

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

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

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.

"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...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.