Ken Jacobs Movies

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

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

Fall into winter 1964, Urban Renewal forced us to move a few blocks to West of Broadway. Our Sky Socialist ‘set’ is still standing and...

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

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

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

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

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.

A picturing of sound in 3D.

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

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...

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs short film

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

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...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs